Overview 

This tool mentor supports performing Describe Distribution 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 .
• The following steps are performed in this tool mentor:
• • Analyze Distribution Requirements
  • Define the Network Configuration
  • Allocate System Elements to Nodes  

Analyze Distribution Requirements

There is no Rational XDE (TM) specific guidance for this step.

Define the Network Configuration

Refine the deployment diagram created in Task: Architectural Analysis (Tool Mentor: Performing Architectural Analysis Using Rational XDE).

Reference: Working with Deployment Diagrams

Allocate System Elements to Nodes

Annotate the deployment diagram, or add additional diagrams, to show logical deployment (classes, subsystems, or threads of control mapped to nodes), and/or physical deployment (files or sets of files mapped to nodes). The steps are as follows:

1. Add additional deployment diagrams as needed. Reference: Adding Diagrams
2. Add nodes or node instances to the diagram. Reference: Adding Shapes to Diagrams
3. Drag and drop design model elements or implementation model elements onto the diagram. Reference: Adding Shapes to Diagrams If the element to be deployed is not yet modeled, add it as needed to the appropriate model. (See Rational XDE Model Structure Guidelines for where each kind of element is modeled.)
4. Add deploy relationships between nodes and deployed elements. Reference: Adding Deploy Relationships

Reference: Working with Deployment Diagrams