Before you can publish UML items, you must install the Rational Asset Manager for systems and software architecture component. Before you can publish topologies, you must install the Rational Asset Manager integration for deployment architecture component. Before you can publish plug-in items, you must install the Rational Asset Manager integration for plugin assets component. All three of these components are separately installable components in the Installation Manager.
To publish modeling items to a Rational Asset Manager repository, you must have access to Rational Asset Manager. You must also install the Rational Asset Manager client plugin in Eclipse. After you install the client plugin, the Asset Management perspective is available in the workspace, which you can use to publish and download assets. Any item that could be a UML fragment is a potential reusable asset.