Introduction

This chapter details the main parts of the Rational Software Architect workbench that you will use when working with the IBM Cúram Social Program Management model. In Rational Software Architect, a perspective is a particular layout of views, an editor and tool bars. Here the Rational Software Architect modeling perspective is described. This perspective allows you to view, create, and maintain elements of the Cúram model.

The most common tasks that are performed in Rational Software Architect are also detailed in this chapter. These include:

Creating, opening, and closing a model
Basic maintenance tasks common to all model elements
Working with model fragments
Searching in the model

Note: Rational Software Architect can be used as a modeling tool or as a plug-in for Eclipse. For the purposes of this guide, the focus will be on using the Rational Software Architect standalone tool.