Page title:Introduction
Caption:IBM Rational design patterns are applied to Unified Modeling Language 2.0 models to modify a design. To help you start, the IBM Rational patterns function contains Design Patterns and Sample Patterns.
Page text:Welcome. This tour offers you an overview of the tools and some of the pattern application and pattern author features.
Creating and using patterns promotes software reuse; designing patterns once and using them many times. Tasks related to the pattern application are performed in the Modeling perspective using the Pattern Explorer view.