A profile hosts domain-specific tags and stereotypes.
The project profiles available to you depend on the development language
and add-on products that you have a license for.
The software often assigns a starting point profile
for your project depending on your development language. Generally,
profiles provide predefined, domain-specific tags and stereotypes
to streamline your development effort. Profiles serve any of these
purposes:
- Provide industry-specific details as starting points
for the projects
- Support add-on products (which require additional
licenses)
- Manage compatibility with previous product versions
- Outline a project to meet a standard such as DoDAF,
MODAF, or UPDM
A predefined Rational® Rhapsody® profile
becomes part of your project in one of these ways: