ObjecTime Limited of

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was a software company with the known software product

ObjecTime Developer ObjecTime Developer (or ObjecTime or OTD, for short) is a software automation tool designed to meet the development needs of real-time software development teams. The tool was created by ObjecTime Limited of Kanata, Ontario, and was aimed at aiding ...

Founding of ObjecTime and early years

ObjectTime was founded in 1992 by former employees of Bell-Northern Research who worked on the Telos project. The company developed the product of the same name. In 1994, the ObjecTime language was renamed to "ROOM" (Real-Time Object-Oriented Modelling) and th
Real-Time Object-Oriented Modeling (ROOM) book
was published. In 1998, a UML version of the ROOM language, created as the "UML-RT" profile, was made available.

Acquisition of ObjecTime

Rational Software Rational Machines is an enterprise founded by Paul Levy and Mike Devlin in 1981 to provide tools to expand the use of modern software engineering practices, particularly explicit modular architecture and iterative development. It changed its ...

''(developer of the product known as

Rational Rose Rational Rose XDE, an "eXtended Development Environment" for software developers, integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and Rational Application Developer. The Rational Software division of IBM, which previously produced Rational Rose, ...

)'', had been collaborating with ObjecTime Limited since 1997. At the beginning of the year 2000, Rational Software acquired ObjecTime Limited. Their respective products — ''Rational Rose'' and ''ObjecTime Developer'' — were then merged into a product that was rechristened

Rational Rose RealTime Rational Machines is an enterprise founded by Paul Levy and Mike Devlin in 1981 to provide tools to expand the use of modern software engineering practices, particularly explicit modular architecture and iterative development. It changed its n ...

. In 2002, Rational Software was acquired by IBM, which elected to adopt the products.

Resources

As of 2006, IBM continues to make legacy documentation available on the following products: * tp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/rational/docs/documentation/manuals/objectime.html ObjecTime — legacy documentation* tp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/rational/docs/documentation/manuals/rose.html Rational Rose — current and legacy documentation* tp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/rational/docs/documentation/manuals/rosert.html Rational Rose RealTime — current and legacy documentation

References

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External links

Press release on the Rational-ObjecTime mergerReal-Time Object-Oriented Modeling book on Amazon
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