Tool Mentor: Managing Classes Using Rational Rose

Purpose

This tool mentor describes how to represent classes in Rational Rose.

This section provides links to additional information related to this tool mentor.

• Class Design
• Identify Design Elements

Overview

The following steps are performed to manage classes:

1. [Create classes](#Creating Classes in the Design Model)
2. [Create operations](#Creating Operations)

1. Create classes

There are several ways to create a class in Rational Rose. The easiest may be to create a class in a diagram by using the class icon and drawing tool in the Logical View of your model. Alternatively, you can select a package in the browser and use New > Class from the shortcut menu . Once you’ve created a class, you can describe it by opening its Class Specification and adding text to the Documentation field.

2. Create operations

The easiest way to add operations to a class is to select the class in a diagram or the browser, then use New Operation from the shortcut menu.