Meister Tutorials

These Meister tutorials can help you understand how you can define your Projects, Builds and Continuous Integration Workflows to Meister.

 

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Creating a Dependency Directory

 

This Meister tutorial shows you how to create a Project and assign your Dependency Directories to the Project

Creating a portable and reusable Dependency Directory

This Meister tutorial shows you how to make your Dependency Directory listing reusable and portable using environment variables.

Creating a Dependency Directory to support a Lifecycle staged re lease model

Dependency Directories can be defined in many ways. This Meister tutorial shows you how to define a Dependency Directory to support a Lifecycle development model.

Defining a custom Java Build Service for the Enterprise

Build Services are the heart of the Meister Build engine. This Meister tutorial shows you how to customize the Java Build Service for your environment.

Defining a custom .Net Build Service for the Enterprise

Build Services are the heart of the Meister Build engine. This Meister tutorial shows you how to customize a .Net Build Service for your environment

Understanding Target Files

A Target File defines the binary that you will be creating. This Meister tutorial covers the basics of Targets.

Defining Target Files (TGTs)

You must define a Target in order to execute your build. This Meister tutorial shows you how to define a Target.

Creating Workflows and executing Builds

Workflows connect ALM activities that support pre and post build steps. This tutorial shows you how to create a Workflow and execute a build.

Running builds from the Command Line

There are cases where you may need to execute your Meister Build from a command line so that it can be called from another process. This Meister tutorial shows you how to call Meister from the command line.

Creating and executing nested Workflows

Simplifying your Workflow involves calling standard Workflow activities that may have already been defined in an existing Workflow. This Mojo/Meister tutorial shows you how to create nested Workflows.

Gathering Impact Analysis and Audit Information

Auditing your build is a strong feature of Meister. This Meister tutorial shows you how to execute build audits and display impact analysis.

Creating Build Service Mappings for Java Developers

This Meister tutorial will help the Java developer understand how to create Build Service Mappings.

What People are Saying

"Meister offers us increased productivity and quality  compared to manually controlled builds. Meister also completes the configuration management process through it's central build capabilities allowing Fortis to fully control all internal and external software assets within our fast evolving J2EE world.”  Matthias Pyck, Fortis Bank

"Meister provides us a standard rules-driven build process regardless of platform, compiler and operating system. We selected Meister because it is the only enterprise-wide build tool that can thoroughly support our mission-critical Java, C/C++, and .NET applications.”   Todd Athorp, Sr Programmer, FIS

"Next to documentation, build management is likely to be the least satisfying task a developer must address every day. A lot of software investment ends up in the time it takes to constantly tweak the make files needed to keep a system maintainable. Developers are looking for innovative solutions that will reduce software coding by a factor of five. Jim Duggan, Gartner

"OpenMake Meister drastically reduced the cost of supporting our builds.  Meister allowed our build team to increase the number of builds supported using only 1/2 the staff, configured across 100 remote build servers."   Production Control, Major US Bank

Customer Success Stories

100% Build to Deploy automation that is Developer Driven

See how American Family Insurance implemented a secure, developer driven, build to deploy process using OpenMake Meister and CA SCM r12. This demo was presented at CA World 2010 and at the CA technologies Global Lifecycle User Group Quarterly meeting in September of 2010. This demo has an excellent example of how Meister can parallelize the build to deploy process.

 

Meister added Transparency to the process...

"The implementation of Openmake Meister for build management allowed  BNSF to directly address one of their biggest challenges in the area of IT controls. This technology automated the team’s build processes, providing a  complete audit trail of changes, progression and approvals through each lifecycle stage. Finally, the implementation team used MKS Integrity Manager’s capabilities to manage the implementation itself." BNSF Technology Services Division - Learn More

Meister Standardized the compile process across the enterprise at UCLA ...

"UCLA's challenge was to standardize how builds and releases were processed, regardless of the development language used. OpenMake Meister provided this across the enterprise." University of Southern California, Production Control Team Lead - Learn More

 

Meister allowed for developers to be more efficient saving money and time...

"As a company who specializes in process improvement we look for the most efficient ways to manage changing resources and requirements. We found this quality in Openmake Meister. Meister has allowed us to improve our development process by providing a streamlined, agile and 100% transparent build environment across the application lifecycle." Chris Lank, Ivis President and CEO, VP Worldwide Sales, Togethersoft

Meister accelerated builds across multiple remote machines...

"OpenMake Meister drastically reduced the cost of supporting our builds.  Meister allowed our build team to increase the number of builds supported using only 1/2 the staff, configured across 100 remote build agents."   Production Control, Major US Bank

Meister added consistency across multiple languages...

"Meister provides us a standard rules-driven build process regardless of platform, compiler and operating system. We selected Meister because it is the only enterprise-wide build tool that can thoroughly support our mission-critical Java, C/C++, and .NET applications.”   Todd Athorp, Sr Programmer, FIS