Tool Mentor: Managing Interfaces Using Rational Rose

Purpose

This tool mentor describes how to use Rational Rose to manage interfaces.

Related Rational Unified Process information: Activity: Identify Design Elements.

Overview

One or more packages should be used to manage the interfaces of a system. To create these packages, see Tool Mentor: Managing the Design Model.

To use Rational Rose to create interfaces:

1. Create the interface

2. Create interface operations

1. Create the interface

An interface specifies the externally-visible operations of a class and/or component, and has no implementation of its own. An interface typically specifies only a limited part of the behavior of a class or component. Interfaces belong to the logical view but can occur in class, use case and component diagrams.

For more information, refer to the Interface topic in the Rational Rose online help.

2. Create interface operations

To create an interface on an interface, read about classes in Tool Mentor: Managing Classes, using the same steps presented for the class and applying them to the interface.

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