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About the SDL Suite


IBM Rational

The SDL Suite is developed and marketed by IBM Rational. Our company has been a firm supporter of the SDL, MSC and UML languages for a long time. We cooperate with ITU and OMG in the ongoing work of improving the languages and with ETSI in defining international standards in the field of communication protocols.

We initiate and participate in international research programs on how to use the languages in different application areas (such as the European Community programs RACE, ESPRIT and EUREKA, as well as the Swedish national IT program).

Our experience and know-how in these areas is put to practice when we develop software engineering tools that support the languages.

The SDL Suite

Tools for design and specification languages must be able to create, maintain, and verify a specification with respect to the language syntax and semantics. It is also fundamental that the tools can simulate, validate and generate application code to other high level languages.

To be able to perform a complete development cycle, the tool should support early analysis phases, and the move from object-oriented analysis to SDL design.

The tool should be able to export and import information from other SDL tools. Major documentation standards or de-facto standards should be supported.

The tool should provide an intuitive and consistent graphical user interface which reduces learning time and makes it easy to work with the tool. Besides the graphical user interface, a batch facility should allow to process a large amount of information without user interaction.

A powerful, context-sensitive Help facility should be provided, freeing you from time-consuming browsing through user documentation in search for the topic of interest.

The SDL Suite can do all of this, and much more.


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