Getting Started with Rational Rose

When you first start Rational Rose, some editions will display a Framework dialog box. From this dialog box, you can load a model with predefined model elements, allowing you to focus your modeling efforts on the parts that are unique to your system. For further information on the Framework Wizard, refer to the Framework Wizard Add-In on page 189.

Independent of Frameworks, you can use Rational Rose's graphical user interface to display, create, modify, manipulate, and document the elements in a model using these windows:

• Application window
• Browser window
• Documentation window
• Diagram window
• Overview window
• Specification window

Rational Rose displays the diagram, specification, and documentation windows within the application window.

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Application Window

An application window contains a title bar, menu bar, toolbar, and a work area where the toolbox, browser, documentation window, diagram window, and specification window appear.

Figure 1 Application Window