Mylyn

Mylyn (formerly Mylar ) is an Eclipse - plugin that offers a " task- focused user interface " (task -focused UI). This means that individual development documents (files, classes, etc. ) assigned to tasks and it automatically task-specific views are created that contain only those documents. The software developers should in particular facilitate the work with very large projects, because they only see the straight interest part of it and not Required ( visual noise ) is hidden.

History

Mylar was originally developed by Mik Kersten as part of his doctoral thesis in 2003. For this, the first version 0.1 was installed in 2004 to six developers jobs at IBM and determined by the achieved productivity gains. Mylar was at the 2005 conference EclipseCon presented in 2005 to the public, and then published on the website eclipse.org. The project was renamed in January 2007 in Mylyn, with a possible conflict as a reason was specified with existing brand names. End of 2009, a beta version of the plugin for the Windows development environment Microsoft Visual Studio was released for the first time. Integration into the Team Foundation Server will be

Operation by way of example

This example applies only to the Navigator view; the concept applies Mylyn also on other views and functionalities of Eclipse.

The developer first creates a task (English task). One such it adds a descriptive title, and possibly a description to, further, to when he will have fulfilled this task, and possibly screenshots or other images to document this task better for themselves and other developers. Then he activates the task and open the documents on which he wants to work in this context. Only these are displayed in the Navigator view; all documents are not opened, however hidden. Documents that are closed, also disappear from the view (adjustable). Jump back and forth between the developer tasks that belong to the current task documents (See examples on the right) to open each.