User-Defined Stereotypes

Some stereotypes are predefined, but you can also define your own to add new kinds of modeling types. User-defined stereotypes are defined in a stereotype configuration file. For each stereotype, you can customize icons to be displayed in diagrams, in the browser, and in the toolbox.

Rational Rose offers ten stereotype icons that you can use when modeling a business:

Business Use Case	Business Worker
Use-Case Realization	Entity Class
Boundary Class	Control Class
Business Actor	Business Use-Case Realization
Business Entity	Organization Unit Package

For more information on these icons, refer to the online Help.

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Viewing Stereotypes

You can control how stereotypes are displayed. Click Tools > Options to display the Options dialog box. The settings are found on the Diagram tab.