Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Catalyst Systems Corporation | Subject: Openmake 6.41
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 16 March 2006

Build management tool eliminates scripting

Available now is the latest version of Openmake, the advanced development tool for automated build management combined with lifecycle activities management

Catalyst Systems Corporation has announced general availability of the latest version of Openmake, the advanced development tool for automated build management combined with lifecycle activities management. Release 6.41 incorporates new features for centralising control of lifecycle processes from scheduling SCM updates to executing test and deployment tools.

Openmake 6.41 allows development teams to meet two important IT governance goals.

First, it supports the short-term goal of centralising lifecycle processes.

More importantly, however, Openmake 6.41 allows developers to meet the long-term goal of true build automation moving from an error-prone build process based on manual scripts to a highly efficient and repeatable 'scriptless' build alternative.

According to Carey Schwaber of Forrester Research: 'The process of turning source code files into executables is a scripting-intensive activity'.

'More often than not, a few developers own the build process, creating and maintaining volumes of build scripts that are difficult to decipher and, as a result, nearly impossible to optimise'.

'And when build scripting is entirely manual, it's easy for the build itself to become a source of software defects'.

'Catalyst Systems eliminates the need for scripting'.

'Catalyst is one of the most well-established vendors in this space; its Openmake product has been on the market for 10 years and is resold by leading software configuration management vendors'.

Openmake's leading scriptless build technology lowers development costs, improves the quality of builds and mitigates the risk associated with manually maintained make and Ant/XML build scripts.

Accelerated application lifecycle management (ALM) is also a new feature of Openmake 6.41.

Using the lifecycle automation features, ALM processes can be chained and executed across distributed machines.

Accelerated ALM uses advanced concurrent processing technology to determine the dependency and order of execution for lifecycle activities, providing the fastest execution speeds possible.

Whether helping a single developer or large integrated team, Openmake 6.41 organises lifecycle activities and streamlines the automation of builds.

Openmake is the only build management product that replaces difficult-to-manage make and Ant/XML scripts with generated build control files that follow comprehensive construction rules.

This approach is particularly valuable as the number and complexity of build target objects grows.

Openmake is designed to locally and remotely build components destined for a variety of deployment platforms including embedded devices, handhelds, workstations and servers.

Compatible with a variety of development language and tool environments including Eclipse-based solutions like IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software and Microsoft.Net.

Openmake integrates fully with version-control systems from Rational, Serena, CA and more.

Openmake 6.41 is available immediately, with prices starting at US $50 for lifecycle automation seats to US $350 for full build automation seats.

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