Mylyn: Code at the Speed of Thought
TS-6421

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Mylyn's task-focused user interface has changed the way developers work. Current IDEs overload us with tens of thousands of artifacts, and as a result, we often spend more time searching, scrolling, and navigating than we do programming. Mylyn focuses the Eclipse IDE to show only the information relevant to the task at hand. This makes working with large systems much easier and multitasking effortless. In addition, Mylyn's integrated task management facilities displace the cumbersome browser and email-based mechanism of task tracking.

This presentation starts with an overview of Mylyn's task management features--including offline editing, background synchronizations, and change notifications--and demonstrates how these work for repositories such as Bugzilla, JIRA, and Trac. Demonstrations of the tool show how to get the most out of Mylyn's task context management when working with Java technology, the Eclipse plug-in, and web applications. Mylyn's context sharing and change set management are then used to show how the tool can make the entire development team more productive by realigning interaction around tasks. The second part of the session presents an overview of how Mylyn's frameworks can be extended for building IDE, desktop, and server-side applications. It concludes with a showcase of the ecosystem of tools built on Mylyn that bring the task-focused interface to the various applications and services that make up the developer's workday.

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