Rational Software Modeler / Architect Installation

This page provides directions to configure Rational Software Modeler / Architect, tools for creating UML models. AndroMDA supports these tools directly, without exporting models to EMF / UML2 files. During the rest of this tutorial, RSM will designate both Rational Software Modeler and Rational Software Architect. RSM7.x, 7.5.x, and 8.x and later (UML2 2.x and 3.x) are supported.

Set up a path variables in RSM specifying the location of your Maven repository. Models generated by AndroMDApp contain references to this variables.

  • Start RSM.
  • Choose Window > Preferences from the main menu.
  • Click onModeling, thenPath maps.
  • Click on Create... in the Path Map panel.
  • Enter M2_HOME in the Name field.
  • Enter the location of your Maven repository in the Location field, e.g. C:\Programs\m2repo
  • Click OK twice.
  • Close RSM.