Tool: Rational Asset Manager
A tool which does what its name says: helps you manage your assets.
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Main Description

There are several categories of users for Rational Asset Manager. These include:

  • managers: team leads, project managers
  • administrators: integration administrators, community administrators, repository administrators
  • practitioners: analysts, architects, developers, testers

For each of these categories of users Rational Asset Manager provides support for asset management scenarios, as introduced in the image below. These asset management scenarios may be conducted from Web clients as well as Eclipse clients.

Support for Asset Management scenarios for each of the categories of users.

To support these scenarios, Rational Asset Manager uses the Reusable Asset Specification (RAS) from the OMG as the core structure for asset metadata. Additional metadata is required for integrating with tools and other repositories and registries such as WebSphere Service Registry and Repository. A sampling of the asset metadata is illustrated below:

A sampling of the asset meta data.

RAS provides a structure for unique asset identification as well as metadata extension. Using RAS in Rational Asset Manager the enterprise can configure asset types to meet their particular needs. For example, this means a service asset can be defined as a single asset type containing all necessary artifacts, or it means the enterprise can decompose the service into many asset types such as ‘service interface', ‘service implementation', ‘service test'.