Rational XDE (eXtended
Development Experience) is a visual
design and developemt tool made by Rational Software (recently acquired
by IBM Corp) that tightly integrates into
Visual Studio .NET.
Rational XDE supports
Roundtrip engineering of code
Automatic or on ademand synchronization
of code and models
Pattern engine support, including all 23
GoF patterns,
Multi-model support,
Reverse engineering of database assets
into a data model,