<s>
Rational	B-Application
Rose	I-Application
XDE	I-Application
,	O
an	O
"	O
eXtended	O
Development	O
Environment	O
"	O
for	O
software	O
developers	O
,	O
integrates	O
with	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Visual	I-Application
Studio	I-Application
.NET	I-Application
and	O
Rational	O
Application	O
Developer	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Rational	O
Software	O
division	O
of	O
IBM	O
,	O
which	O
previously	O
produced	O
Rational	B-Application
Rose	I-Application
,	O
wrote	O
this	O
software	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
the	O
Rational	O
June	O
2006	O
Product	O
Release	O
,	O
IBM	O
withdrew	O
the	O
“	O
XDE	O
”	O
family	O
of	O
products	O
and	O
introduced	O
the	O
Rational	B-Application
Rose	I-Application
family	O
of	O
products	O
as	O
replacements	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Rational	B-Application
Rose	I-Application
family	O
of	O
products	O
is	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
UML	B-Language
modeling	O
tools	O
for	O
software	O
design	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Unified	B-Language
Modeling	I-Language
Language	I-Language
(	O
UML	B-Language
)	O
is	O
the	O
industry-standard	O
language	O
for	O
specifying	O
,	O
visualizing	O
,	O
constructing	O
,	O
and	O
documenting	O
the	O
artifacts	O
of	O
software	O
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Rational	B-Application
Rose	I-Application
could	O
also	O
use	O
source-based	O
reverse	O
engineering	O
;	O
the	O
combination	O
of	O
this	O
capability	O
with	O
source	O
generation	O
from	O
diagrams	O
was	O
dubbed	O
roundtrip	B-Application
engineering	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
2007	O
book	O
noted	O
that	O
other	O
UML	B-Protocol
tools	I-Protocol
are	O
also	O
capable	O
of	O
this	O
,	O
the	O
list	O
including	O
Borland	B-Application
Together	I-Application
,	O
ESS-Model	O
,	O
BlueJ	B-Language
,	O
and	O
Fujaba	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Rational	B-Application
Rose	I-Application
family	O
allows	O
integration	O
with	O
legacy	O
integrated	O
development	O
environments	O
or	O
languages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
more	O
modern	O
architectures	O
Rational	B-Language
Software	I-Language
Architect	I-Language
and	O
Rational	B-Application
Software	I-Application
Modeler	I-Application
were	O
developed	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
products	O
were	O
created	O
matching	O
and	O
surpassing	O
Rose	O
XDE	O
capabilities	O
to	O
include	O
support	O
for	O
UML	O
2.x	O
,	O
pattern	O
customization	O
support	O
,	O
the	O
latest	O
programming	O
languages	O
and	O
approaches	O
to	O
software	O
development	O
such	O
as	O
SOA	O
and	O
more	O
powerful	O
data	B-Application
modeling	I-Application
that	O
supports	O
entity-relationship	B-Architecture
(	O
ER	O
)	O
modeling	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
2003	O
UML	B-Language
2	I-Language
For	O
Dummies	O
book	O
wrote	O
that	O
Rational	B-Application
Rose	I-Application
suite	O
was	O
the	O
"	O
market	O
(	O
and	O
marketing	O
)	O
leader	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
UML	B-Language
part	O
was	O
superseded	O
by	O
Rational	B-Language
Software	I-Language
Architect	I-Language
around	O
2006	O
,	O
with	O
Rational	B-Application
Rose	I-Application
becoming	O
a	O
legacy	B-Device
product	I-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
,	O
the	O
ER	B-Architecture
modelling	I-Architecture
part	O
(	O
Rational	B-Application
Rose	I-Application
Data	O
Modeler	O
)	O
has	O
been	O
superseded	O
by	O
another	O
IBM	O
product	O
—	O
Rational	O
Data	O
Architect	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
IBM	O
still	O
sells	O
Rational	B-Application
Rose	I-Application
,	O
listing	O
Visual	B-Application
Studio	I-Application
2005	O
and	O
Windows	B-Application
Vista	I-Application
as	O
compatible	O
environment	O
.	O
</s>
