Page title:Introduction
Closed Captioning text:IBM Rational design patterns are applied to Unified Modeling Language 2.0 models to modify a design. To help you start, IBM Rational patterns functionality contains Design Patterns and Sample Patterns.
Page text:Welcome ! This tour gives you an overview of the tools and some of the pattern author and pattern applier features.
Creating and using patterns promotes software reuse; a pattern is designed once and is used many times. Tasks related to applying patterns are performed in the Modeling perspective using the Pattern Explorer view.