Overview 

This tool mentor supports Identifying Design Mechanisms with Rational XDE Developer - Java Platform Edition.

• The steps in this tool mentor match those in the corresponding task.
• Links to topics in XDE online Help are marked with .
• In the tool mentor, the following steps are performed:
• • Categorize Clients of Analysis Mechanisms
  • Identify Design Mechanisms for the User-Experience Mechanisms
  • Inventory the Implementation Mechanisms
  • Map Design Mechanisms to Implementation Mechanisms
  • Document Architectural Mechanisms

Categorize Clients of Analysis Mechanisms

There is no Rational XDE specific guidance for this step.

Identify Design Mechanisms for the User-Experience Mechanisms

There is no Rational XDE specific guidance for this step.

Inventory the Implementation Mechanisms

There is no Rational XDE specific guidance for listing all the available implementation mechanisms. However, some of the J2EE implementation mechanisms are described in the following Rational XDE online Help topics:

• Understanding J2EE Pattern-Driven Development
• J2EE Pattern-Driven Development
• Supported J2EE Patterns

Map Design Mechanisms to Implementation Mechanisms

There is no Rational XDE specific guidance for this step.

Document Architectural Mechanisms

Mechanisms themselves are Design Model elements (such as Design Package, Design Class, and Design Subsystem) that can be represented in Work product: Design Model as part of their respective design activities. See Tool Mentor: Identify Design Elements for guidelines on creating Design Model elements. Note that a Rational XDE pattern is particularly well suited to documenting a design and implementation mechanism, because it allows clients of the mechanism to expand the pattern and to generate much of the required design and code.