Tool Mentor: Managing Classes
Purpose
This tool mentor describes how to represent classes in Rational Rose®.
Related Rational Unified Process Activities: Identify Design Elements, Class Design.
Overview
The following steps are performed to manage classes:
1. Creating
Classes 
There are several ways to create a class in Rational Rose. The easiest may be to create a class in a diagram by using the class icon and drawing tool in the Logical View of your model. Alternatively, you can select a package in the browser and use New > Class from the short-cut menu . Once you've created a class, you can describe it by opening its Class Specification and adding text to the Documentation field.
2. Creating Operations
The easiest way to add operations to a class is to select the class in a diagram or the browser then use New Operation from the short-cut menu.
