"If I can get a piece of code written and start to expose it to potential consumers quickly and get feedback from them, there is a better shot at reuse [of the code]," he said. "If I am going down a service-oriented path, I absolutely need to involve and promote an understanding of the granularity or interfaces of the services I am defining to the community that will consume those services."

Rational also plans beginning in 2008 to embed some of the Jazz capabilities into their existing line of development and application life cycle manage tools.