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Release Notes
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These release notes provide information critical to installing and using Rational Unified Process (RUP), including supporting platforms and known issues with this release.
Copyright © 1987 – 2001, Rational Software Corporation. All rights reserved.
Guidelines and Restrictions on Using RUP
UNIX Platforms
Netscape Browsers
Microsoft Browsers
General Errors
This document provides information about the 2002.05.00 release of RUP. For details of updates of the product from previous versions, please refer to the About page in the product.
You can find information about add-on products and upgrades at the RUP Resource Center. Users of the RUP users should visit the Resource Center page from time to time to check on updates and product information.
Also included is information about:
Refer to the following information for system and software requirements. This section provides basic information on the platforms supported and the hardware and software requirements for running RUP. Refer to Compatibility Issues for more information.
This product has been tested on the following platforms:
RUP requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 with SP 1 or later, or Netscape Navigator 4.0 or later. Please make sure that these are installed. Earlier versions may not be able to display all pages in the RUP. To obtain the latest version of your browser, click on the appropriate link below:
Microsoft Internet Explorer: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads
Netscape Navigator: http://home.netscape.com/comprod/mirror/client_download.html
Follow the instructions provided by the installation CD. This release installs the Classic version of the Rational Unified Process and the RUP Builder which enables users to generate other RUP configurations available in this release. See installation guide for details.
We strongly recommend using the RUP with the most currently available version of your web browser. RUP requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 with SP1 or later. Some older versions of browsers do not allow the full capabilities of the RUP to be exercised.
This table shows information about your web browser and your system.
page location =
| Property | Value |
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The following tools and respectively versions are used in constructing the RUP:
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Tool |
Version |
| Microsoft FrontPage | 2000 |
| CorelDraw | 9 |
| PhotoShop | 5.5 |
The following enhancements and new features appear in this release:
When launching the RUP Netscape Navigator on UNIX, a warning dialog may appear:
Netscape: subprocess diagnostics (stdout/stederr)
Warning: Name: HorScrollBar Class: XmScrollBar The scrollbar page increment is less than 1
This occurs whenever the horizontal scrollbar must be displayed (i.e. it may not occur if your initial window is large enough that the left panel doesn't need a scrollbar)
You may disable dialogs for warning and error messages, and redirect messages to a file using the following command:
netscape -xrm '*useStderrDialog: False' –xrm '*useStdoutDialog: False' >&/tmp/log.$USER.ns
It can take more than one minute to start the RUP online on Unix. Also the search engine can take up to one minute to start. This is due to the slow start-up of the Java virtual machine.
‘Banners’ on page titles are not correctly displayed using some versions of
Netscape Navigator and Communicator. The problem is purely cosmetic and does
not affect use of the product.
If you resize the window, or the left frame, using Netscape Navigator, the treebrowser area is not resized.
To resize the treebrowser area:
You will experience a delay when the "WhereAmI" navigation button is pressed for the first time while browsing the RUP.
Netscape Navigator 4.08 has problems displaying certain components. E.g. the title banners. It is recommended to use Netscape browser of version 4.7 or later.
Netscape Navigator has problems displaying trademark () and registered () symbols in the title banners. They will show up as a question mark (?).
Netscape Navigator has problems displaying trademark () and registered () symbols in the tree browser due to the Netscape JVM.
If you click on the "Resource Center" in the treebrowser, using Internet Explorer 4.0, nothing happens.
This is due to a problem in Internet Explorer. To solve this, you need to upgrade the Internet Explorer with the Service Pack 1 (SP1), from the Microsoft home page.
To upgrade Internet Explorer 4.01, either press Help > Product Updates, in the Internet Explorer, or go to the Microsoft home page: http://www.microsoft.com.
Using Internet Explorer hyperlinks to bookmarks on a page does not always work as expected. The top of the target page is displayed instead of the position on the page, where the bookmark is. Using the index (which is opened in a separate window) you can click on the link one more time, when the page is displayed. This will display the correct position on the page. On other pages there is no other way to find the correct position than to do a search (Edit>Find) on the target page.
The treebrowser java applet does not start with Internet Explorer 5.X. It only works if Microsoft Virtual Machine is installed. You get that installed if you do a full installation of Internet Explorer 5.X. Click here for information about your web browser.
When using Windows 2000 or Windows 98, if the Internet Explorer browser window is too small to display the treebrowser, the RUP will not be displayed properly. You will need to increase the browser window size and refresh.
When the cursor is in the treebrowser frame, if one tries to print the content in the main frame by selecting File > Print. The product splash screen will be displayed in the main frame under you click on another node in the treebrowser. The output of the print job will be blank.
Users running IE 5.0 with Microsoft Virtual Machine 1.1 on Windows NT 4.0 will not be able to do a "Refresh" or "Back". Attempts to do so will cause the treebrowser and the splashscreen to hang and will get the following message in the Java Console:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at ruptools/tree/MyTreeView.Ý
at ruptools/tree/MyTreeView.Ð
at ruptools/TreeBrowse.run
at java/lang/Thread.run"
To find out which Virtual Machine you are using, see the troubleshooter table on this page. The solution to this problem is to update the IE to 5.01 and make sure that the Virtual Machine is upgraded to 1.1.4.
Using Internet Explorer 3.x and Netscape 3.x, you cannot run the Java applets, such as the treebrowser in the left frame. When you start the RUP, using IE 3.x, a new window will be displayed that
a) Directs you to the Microsoft or Netscape home pages to download the latest version of the browser.
b) Gives you the option to use the SiteMap to browse the Unified Process using version 3.x of the browser.
The RUP uses Java applets to provide search, index and navigation capabilities; use of browsers which do not support Java applets is not supported. See browser compatibility note above.
Browsing the Unified Process using non-Java compliant browsers can be accomplished with a loss of functionality using the web page ./sitemap/sitemap.htm under the Unified process install directory.
29 MB (Windows NT). Run the DOS command chkdsk for information on your file system.
Unix 30MB
Navigator 3.x and IE 3.x do not support cascading style sheets (CSS), which are used by the RUP. This means that the formatting and layout is crude on Navigator 3.x and IE 3.x. We strongly recommend upgrading to a newer release of your browser.
If you find the text font to be too small you can change the web-browsers default font. This will make the text on all pages to be displayed with a larger font.
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