Tool Support

RUP Builder is the tool used to assemble and publish a RUP Configuration out of a RUP Base and any number of compatible RUP Plug-Ins. RUP Builder also allows some limited selection of certain process elements ”artifacts, guidelines, and so on ”and it can create predefined Process Views.

For basic process customizations, RUP Organizer allows you to simply drag and drop your own artifacts or process examples into a RUP configuration and publish RUP configurations or Thin Plug-Ins. For more advanced process customizations and the creation of Structural Plug-Ins, RUP Modeler is an add-in to Rational XDE ”Rational's most recent UML modeling tool. RUP Modeler relies on the concepts of the SPEM (introduced in Chapter 3) to support an object-oriented model of the process. Together, RUP Modeler and RUP Organizer constitute the Rational Process Workbench.

The Rational Unified Process contains tool mentors for RUP Builder and RUP Organizer. The Process Engineering Process contains tool mentors for the RUP Modeler.