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Does Rational Rose have the ability to ingest data from other IDEF0 applications?

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Does Rational Rose have the ability to ingest data from other IDEF0 applications?

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We would not recommend doing this, even if a tool advertises that it can make the conversion, because UML and IDEF use different methodologies to derive the architecture. Popkin System Architect and Rational Rose, for example, are not just different tools; they employ different approaches to architectural design. There is no clean “universal translator” between an IDEF and UML application, other than a well-trained object-oriented architect who can analyze the IDEF architecture from a object-oriented perspective. The IDEF method breaks up data objects in favor of process and the UML favors data objects as the basis to model the process (activities) – reference Question 3. However, this does not mean that you must abandon your existing structured models and start over. An experienced object-oriented modeler can review the structured models looking for roles, nouns, and verbs to rebuild the model into an object-oriented framework. Finally, the underlying method used by the UML does not e

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