RXIE, Rose XML import/export component, which is an add-in to the Rose UML tool intended to export and import UML information in the XML interchange format, and also to handle activation of external tools such as code generators. Rose is a tool from IBM Rational (TM) that can be easily operated through a very complete and well documented set of COM components, the so-called Rose Extensibility Interface (REI). RXIE is developed in Visual Basic 6, as it is bound to the COM technology from Microsoft (TM).