Preface

Using the Rose Extensibility Interface describes the Rational Rose Extensibility Interface (REI) and provides procedures for:

• Customizing and extending Rose menus
• Customizing and extending Rose using the REI
• Working with the Rose Script Editor, which is the scripting environment for working with the REI

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Audience

This manual is intended for scripters and add-in developers who want to customize and extend Rose. It assumes that you are familiar with the Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows 2000 operating environment; object oriented design concepts; and how to use Rose.

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Other Resources

• Online Help is available for the Rose Extensibility Interface.

  From Rose, click Help > Contents and Index > Contents > Rational Rose Extensibility Interface.

• All manuals are available online, either in HTML or PDF format. The online manuals are on the Rational Solutions for Windows Online Documentation CD.
• To purchase additional printed documentation for Rational products, see http://www.rational.com/documentation.
• For more information on training opportunities, see the Rational University Web site: http://www.rational.com/university.

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Related Documentation

For additional resources, refer to the Using Rose guide and online Help. If you are new to Rose, visual modeling, or the Unified Modeling Language (UML), you may also want to read the book, Visual Modeling with Rational Rose and UML.

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File Names

Where file names appear in examples, Windows syntax is depicted. To obtain a legal UNIX file name, eliminate any drive prefix and change the backslashes to slashes:

c:\project\username

becomes

/project/username

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Contacting Rational Technical Support

If you have questions about installing, using, or maintaining this product, contact Rational Technical Support.

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• Your name, telephone number, and company name
• Your computer's make and model
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• Product release number and serial number
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