"In its ongoing quest to free developers from writing scripts to manage the build process, Catalyst Systems Corp. this month announced version 6.3 of Openmake.
"While the latest version of the build management tool improves the build process for all types of developers, including Microsoft .NET and C++ developers, it is particularly focused on Java developers, said Catalyst vice president of marketing Patrick Egan.
"By embedding the open-source Java build tool ANT into Openmake, version 6.3 eliminates the need for Java developers to write custom ANT scripts and build Java classes. 'It offers Java developers the ability to control all ANT tasks without having to write lengthy scripts,' said Egan, noting that in the past, they had to write Perl scripts to get into the underlying build types in Openmake..."
