Openmake Mojo and Meister 7.2 Feature Review 

Feature improvements in the 7.2 products include enhancements in four primary areas. The first of these areas address both Meister and Mojo and involve improvements in workflow processing and reporting. The use of the Postgresql database has been added for reporting improvements.   A new browser based reporting portal has been introduced, called the "Management Control Console".  Public Workflows can be executed from the Management Control Console, and all reports and logs can be viewed from this central location.  The Management Control Console allows non-developers to execute workflows and view results through a web based interface, without needing to install any components on their local machines.  The Management Control Console is helpful in globally distributed sites allowing easy access to build and workflow information from any location.   

Secondly, Meister's Build Services were enhanced for both java and Microsoft developers.  Meister's Build Services have been enhanced to assist java developers when managing custom output location mappings such as is used with MyEclipse and IBM-RAD.  Meister has been extended to support Visual Studio 2008, Team Foundation Server and Team Build with the ability to perform x-platform and x-language builds.

Thirdly, enhanced continuous integration build processing is supported through Meister's  continuous integration build scripts.  Continuous integration build scripts allow developers to automatically synchronize builds running inside the Eclipse or Microsoft IDE with the builds scripts running outside of the IDE.  This synchronization improves the agile process by supporting a continuous integration build that can automatically adapt to source code changes made by the developer, minimizing broken continuous integration build loops due to out of date build scripts.   

And lastly, Meister Insight is introduced in version 7.2.  Meister Insight provides Build Audit Reporting, binary Footprinting and Impact Analysis reporting.  Meister Insight provides traceability between source code and binaries.  This level of traceability ensures that the binaries you are releasing to production match the source code you are managing in your version control repository.