Model Driven Development with a Definitive
Software Library
Carlos Ferreira
RAM Product Manager, IBM
Carlos.Ferreira@us.ibm.com
Dr Gili Mendel
RAM Architect, IBM
Carlos.Ferreira@us.ibm.com
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Agenda
 Business challenges addressed by a Modeling and a definitive software library
 Introduction to Rational Asset Manager
 RAM - Rational Software Architect integration
 Modeling RAM Governance Model and using RSA RAM Configurator
 Deployment Architecture Platform - Deployment modeling
 Software Factories - Using Software Modeling to develop reference architectures
 RAM – WebSphere Business Modeler Integration
 Model driven development using a DSL Demonstration
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Managing assets to get more value out of your enterprise
Enterprise Architects
Architects
Testers
To reduce risks, automate
reviews and EA adoption
With System Architect
To reduce costs by sharing
data models, business processes &
proven reference architectures
With Rational Software Architect, Data
Architect and WebSphere Business
Modeler
To reduce defects by sharing the
correct test data & virtual environments
With Rational Testing Solutions
Data &
Service
Models
Business
Process
Rational
Asset
Manager
Test
Data
Gold
Build
Software Image
Service
WebSphere
Service
Registry
Endpoint
Tivoli
CMDB
Administrators in
Operations
SLA
Portfolio
Manager
Notes, Wikis
& Sharepoint
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Encryption
Component
Rational
Team ClearCase
WSDLConcert
Subversion
Business People
To reduce outages by
understanding the impact of
operational change on business
& technical assets with Tivoli
CCMDB & WebSphere
Build
Forge
To save time finding solutions in docs
like Viso, Word, PDF in Sharepoint and
Wikis or assets that meet
requirements in Req Pro & Doors
Developers
To reduce costs and legal risks
by re-using only approved
components With Eclipse, Build
Forge & Rational Team
Concert
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What is an asset and how are you managing them?
 When zero, one or more set of work products are shared or referenced to meet a
recurring need from one or more stake holders
 Organizational asset collaboration and understanding
 Which types of assets and how are they related?
 What set and version of work products?
 What meta data is required and from which repository?
 What is asset version?
 Organizational asset governance
 Asset visibility and permissions?
 Who needs to review this asset?
 What set of policies must be met are have been met?
 Organizational asset discovery and maintenance
 How to harvest assets?
You must be
able to answer
these questions
in order to
reduce
solution
delivery costs
 How to find assets?
 Which assets do I maintain and how?
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What is Needed to Govern the Asset Lifecycle?
Integral
to SOA
Scalable, Flexible, Enterprise-Level Solution
Catalog and
Organize
Asset
Metadata
Review
Impact
Assessment
Audit and
Report
Repository to
store and quickly
find assets &
services
• Reduce
duplication
• Reduce
maintenance
costs
• Improve
consistency
Automate
reviews and
business and
technical policy
enforcement
• Eliminate
costs from
difficult to
enforce
policies
Capture asset
relationships,
plan change and
understand
impact
•Prevent
changes that
result in
unexpected
costs
Identify value
add or nonperforming
assets
•Allocate
resources to
optimize ROI
•Reduce
compliance
costs
Integrate with your design and operational environment including other
existing repositories
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Rational Asset Manager
 Provides a definitive software library for cataloging, maintaining, and governing
business and software assets across the enterprise
 For clients who want to:
 Understand what assets they have, how they are related and are driving business value
 Reduce the overall cost of governing, planning, implementing and maintaining solutions
 Deliver solutions faster and decrease time to market
 Reduce delivery risk by being more consistent and using proven assets, resulting in
increased quality and reliability of solutions
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Agenda
 Business challenges addressed by a Modeling and a definitive software library
 Introduction to Rational Asset Manager
 RAM - Rational Software Architect integration
 Modeling RAM Governance Model and using RSA RAM Configurator
 Deployment Architecture Platform - Deployment modeling
 Software Factories - Using Software Modeling to develop reference architectures
 RAM – WebSphere Business Modeler Integration
 Model driven development using a DSL Demonstration
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Modeling RAM Governance Model and using RSA RAM
Configurator
 Eclipse Plugin to RSA that allows you to:
 Model RAM asset governance model
 Publish model into a RAM server or import it from a RAM server
 Benefits
 Visualize and socialize asset governance model
 Faster to edit
 How to get it and find out more
 Developerworks
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/08/0923_larsen/index.html?S_TACT=1
05AGX15&S_CMP=LP
 Quick Demo
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RSA Deployment Architecture Platform
 Allows you to:
 Model deployment architectures, publish and deploy
 Benefits
 Easier to understand, visualize and socialize approved and compliant deployments
 Faster to edit and create deployments
 How to get it
 Comes with Rational Software Architect
 Find out more
 Daniel Berg - EAM02
Design Successful IT Deployments Using the New Deployment Architecture Platform in
IBM(R) Rational(R) Software Architect
EAM
 Solutions Center
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RAM – WebSphere Business Modeler Integration
 Allows you to:
 Model business
processes
 Benefits
 Publish and Share
business
processes
 Visualize and
socialize business
processes
 How to get it
 Comes with WBM
 Find out more
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Definitive Software Library
Manage published software and business assets like..
Tasks
Pro
pos
e
Identify
Busines
s
Need
Enterprise Arch
Develop
Retire or
create
new
version
Use
or
Deploy
Publish
and
Review
Data Model
Doc of Understanding
SLA
Service Specification
Design Model
Application
Bus Case
Deploy Plan
Release
Install Guide
Third Party Binary
Reference Arch
Open Source Jar
Bus Process
Harvest
assets
Measure asset
performance
Test Data
Create, publish, search &
use assets
Business
Tuning Guide
Virtual Image
Test Results
Report
Policies
Build
Understand
Impact of change
Development
Business
Manager
All Roles
Portfolio
Mgmt
Insight
Reporting
Microsoft
System
Architect
Analyst
WebSphere
Business
Modeler
Req Pro
Architect
Rational
Software
Architect
Developer
WebSphere
Integration
Developer
VM
Measure asset
performance
Operations
Project
Tester
Manager
RFT Build Mgr
Rational
RPT
Build
Method
ClearForge Composer
Quest
Policy
Manager
Weblayers
Deployment
Manager SOA Architect
Tivoli
CCMDB
Service
Registry
Eclipse
Sharepoint
Wikis
Requirements
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Defects
Builds
Policies
CMDB
UDDI Registry
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Where can you learn more?
 Rational Asset Manager Insider Blog
 http://rationalassetmanager.wordpress.com/
 Includes best practices, Web cast tutorials and demos
 Product Page
 http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/ram/
 Discussion Forum
 http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=1122
 Developerworks
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/products/ram/
 Rational Asset Manager Exchange
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/exchange/ram_exchange/ind
ex.html?S_TACT=105AGX15&S_CMP=LP
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Back Up Slides
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Rational Asset Manager is key part of CALM
New or improved
integrations
Software Development Platform
Architect
Rational
Software
Architect
RSD
RSM
Analyst
WebSphere
Business
Modeler
CVS
ClearCase
Developer
RAD
WebSphere
Integration
Developer
Eclipse
Harvest
assets
Developer
Rational
Asset
Analyzer
Measure
performance
Business
Manager All Roles
Developer
WebSphere
Service
Registry &
Repository
Link
Requirements
with assets
Deployment
Manager
Tivoli
CCMDB
Publish, search,,
& impact analysis
RAM Asset Management Server
using Jazz
eWAS
DB2
Portfolio
Management
Create. modify, use &
review cloud assets
RAM administration
Create, publish, search
& RAM
use Cloud
assets
Services
Metadata
Storage
Filesystem
Policy
Manager
Weblayers
Report
Policies
Submit
and
query
change
requests
All Roles
ClearQuest
Oracle
SQL Server
LDAP
Build
execution
Asset Management Platform
Includes RUP for Asset Based Development
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Method
Composer
RAM Eclipse
Client & Plug-in
Business
Manager
All Roles
Doors, Caliber
Requisite Pro
Project
Manager
RAM Web Client
Rational Team
Concert
Subversion by
Clearvision
Tester
RFT
RPT
Build Mgr
BuildForge
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Setting UP RAM RSA Integration
 Install RSA
 Install RAM on the Server
 Install RAM Eclipse Plug-in into RSA using the RAM update site
 Download and install the RSA Asset Library Schemas into RAM
 In RSA configure a connection to the RAM server from the RAM Repository View
 Publish the model
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Step 1 Install the Rational Asset Manager plug-in
 Before you can publish the UML models, you must install the Rational Asset Manager Eclipse client plug-in
in your workbench. In this lesson, you install the client plug-in by using the Eclipse update manager.
 To complete this lesson, you must have access to the Rational Asset Manager server. Contact your
Rational Asset Manager server administrator to obtain the Web client URL that you can use to access the
Rational Asset Manager server and update site, for example,
http://localhost:13080/com.ibm.ram.repository.web/extensions.faces.
 After you have this information, enter the URL for the Web client in a browser and then click Help >
Extensions. In the Eclipse Client Plug-in section, find the URL that is displayed besides the Update site
area, for example: http://localhost:13080/com.ibm.ram.repository.web/RCPUpdateSite/
 To install the client plug-in:
 In the Rational modeling product, click Help > Software Updates; then click Available software.
 On the Available software page, click Add Site, specify the URL for the update site, and click OK.
 From the list of available update sites, select the site that you just added and click Install.
 On the Install page, click Next.
 On the Review Licenses page, read the license agreement. If you agree to the terms and conditions of the
agreement, click I accept and click Finish.
 After the installation is complete, in the Software Updates window, click Apply Changes.
 To verify that the installation succeeded, open the Asset Management perspective. Click Window > Open
Perspective > Other, select Asset Management, and click OK.
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Step 2: Connect to the Rational Asset Manager server
 After you install the client plug-in, you can connect to the Rational Asset Manager
server.
 To connect to the Rational Asset Manager server:
 In the browser, click Help > Extensions, and copy the repository URL that is
displayed beside Repository location.
 In the Rational modeling product in the Asset Repositories view, click Create
connections to asset repositories.
 On the New Asset Management Repository Connection page, provide the
connection details:
 In the URL field, paste the repository URL.
 In the User name and Password fields, enter a valid user name and password.
 Click Finish.
 In the New Repository Connection window, click OK.
 You can now submit the UML model as a Rational Asset Manager asset to the
Rational Asset Manager server.
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Step 3 Download and install the RSA Asset Library
Schemas
 Before you configure Rational Asset Manager you must download the schema file
or files to your system. Right-click the link below, then select Save Target As or
Save Link As and save the schema file to a temporary directory such as C:\tmp.
 schema file for UML modeling items (umlassets.xmi)
 schema file for deployment architecture items (topology.xmi)
 schema file for provisionable items (provisionableAssets.xmi)
 You must import one schema, enable it, and disassociate it.
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Step 4 Publish a UML model as a Rational Asset
Manager asset
 Open the Modeling perspective: click Window > Open Perspective > Other >
Modeling.
 In the Project Explorer view, find the model named SimpleUmlModel that you
imported in Lesson 1.
 Right-click the UML model; then click Publish Asset.
 In the Publish wizard, provide the asset details and click Finish.
 To verify that the publication succeeded, open the Asset Management perspective:
click Window > Open Perspective > Other, select Asset Management from the
list, and click OK. In the Asset Repositories view, expand My Assets. You should
see the UML model.
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Fix the problem?
 Import the
RSA Asset
Library into
RAM to fix this
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What you can publish from RSA
 UML models, UML fragments, UML profiles, topologies, and their related artifacts
to the Rational Asset Manager repository. You can publish either the main item or
the main item and its related items such as related models. By default, a new
asset is created for each modeling item that you select to publish. The appropriate
dependencies are also created between related items.
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Publishing a Model
 Click Modeling > Publish > Web.
 In the General window, click Full. To get an HTML version of the Model
 The GOTCHA
 To include the HTML version of the UML model in the asset contents, in the Web publish
folder field, specify the folder where you published the HTML version of the model. Note:
The folder where the HTML is published must be in the same project as the item being
published. To be able to select the folder, you must refresh the Project Explorer view to
show the folder after you publish the item.
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Published Model
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Search and Import Model
 The Gotcha
 To be able to import a model asset into any project, select the Make references
workspace independent check box. Note: This option is useful if the model
references other model assets or if other models reference elements in this model.
In this situation, this option enables you to import the assets into a different project
and maintain the references. However, if you select this option, the publish
operation modifies the model. The operation creates pathmaps to projects, instead
of references, and the model becomes dependent on the Rational Asset Manager
integration, which allows the pathmaps to resolve to the correct project location.
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Setting UP RAM WBM Integration
1. Log into the Rational Asset Manager Web client as an administrator. The default
URL syntax is http://host:port/com.ibm.ram.repository.web/home.faces
2. Click the Administration tab to open the Administration page.
3. In the Repository Administration options, select Tools to open the Tools page.
4. In the Import and Export Model section of the Tools page, click Browse and locate
the repository profile, profile_6.2.0.000.zip, which is located in the
repositoryProfiles folder where you installed WebSphere Business Modeler. If you
installed WebSphere Business Modeler using the default settings, the location is
C:\Program Files\IBM\WBModeler62\repositoryProfile\profile_6.2.0.000.zip
5. Click Import.
6. On the Library Import Summary page, click Import and Replace.
7. In WBM setup a connection to the RAM repository
8. Select the entities that you want to publish to RAM
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