DT offers a core set of courses aimed at covering the Application Lifecycle, from requirements gathering, analysis and design to development, testing, process and project management.

New Features in Together 2006 for Eclipse

Course Overview
This course introduces analysts, software architects, designers, and developers to the new features of Borland® Together® 2006 Release 2 for Eclipse.

What will I learn?
This 1-day course helps users of Together Architect 1.x or Together Designer/Developer 2005 ramp up quickly on the new user interface, technologies, and features offered in Together® 2006 Release 2 for Eclipse. The course is taught in a practical hands-on environment, in which exercises and instructor-led demonstrations help reinforce the concepts taught during the lecture.

Course Style
50% lecture, 50% labs

Course Contents
Working with Projects

• Using the Eclipse environment and its components (workbench, perspectives, editors, views)
• Understanding project lifecycle (creating, importing, exporting, opening, closing and deleting projects)
• Configuring projects (project properties, cross-project references, build order)
• Configuring Together

Working with Diagrams

• Understanding the model-centric paradigm in Together 2006
• Understanding UML 2 diagram types
• Creating new diagrams
• Adding and removing diagram elements
• Controlling diagram layout
• Using shortcuts and hyperlinks
• Searching through the model

Using the New Tools

• Using new audits and metrics
• Generating project documentation
• Using UML profiles

Integration with Other Tools

• Using Together perspectives and views that provide access to StarTeam
• Importing a project from StarTeam using Team Project Sets
• Sharing a project (submitting a project to StarTeam)
• Checking model elements in and out
• Locking and unlocking model elements; controlling locking granularity
• Accessing the CaliberRM requirement management system from Together

Other New Features

• Understanding Model Driven Architecture (MDA), its benefits and supporting technologies
• Understanding how Together supports design patterns
• Business modeling using Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)
   

Prerequisites
Experience with previous Together versions (recommended) or with other modeling tools
UML2 modelling experience as an analyst, architect or developer
 

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Duration
1 day