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Workspace IBM Rhapsody Systems Engineering
Categories Functional Improvement
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 6, 2025

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Rhapsody’s documentation should be clarified for the RhpPluginCleanup and RhpFinalPluginCleanup API call.

Rhapsody’s documentation uses “Close” in the description of RhpFinalPluginCleanup and uses “Exit” in the description 
of RhpFinalPluginCleanup.  

Several people at our company as well as the IBMers and a consultant all assumed “Close” is called when a Rhapsody 
project is closed, and they assumed “Exit” is called when the Rhapsody Client Application is exited completely.  
But those assumptions are wrong, and that led to a lengthy and frustrating misunderstanding of how to use the 
RhpPluginCleanup and RhpPluginCleanup functions.  


What was found was that the RhpPluginFinalCleanup is called every time a Rhapsody Project “Closes” if the RhpPluginCleanup is set to “True”.
We had been trying to use the RhpPluginCleanup to unload our plugins, unsuccessfully for a long time.  


Once we understood that the RhpPluginFinalCleanup had to be used to unload plugins, then unloading plugins started working properly.

Currently in the Rhapsody.jar file the package com.telelogic.rhapsody.core has the following for the class RPUserPlugin:

//called when the project is closed - if true is returned the plugin will be unloaded   <-
public abstract boolean RhpPluginCleanup():

//called when Rhapsody exits  <-
public abstract boolean RhpPluginFinalCleanup():


The issue is described in detail in case TS020003205. 

 

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