Mylyn is a plugin for Eclipse that focuses the IDE on the active task, allowing developers to work more efficiently on tasks like bugs and features by automatically filtering workspaces and notifications based on the current task. It integrates with issue tracking systems to monitor changes and updates and helps reduce information overload and context switching time by keeping developers focused on one task at a time.

1. Introduction to Mylyn
Saurabh Arora

2. Problems
Do you work on large
projects with hundreds of
classes

4. Problems
How do you see all the code together?

5. Problems
Repetitive Search
Scroll
Navigate
Workings sets don’t
always help

6. Information Overload

7. Tasks/Bugs/Features
• Monitor changes to
bugs.
• How do you edit

8. Task Handling

9. Problems
• Request to handle multiple bugs and enhancement
• Time spend switching context

10. Task Context Switching

11. Questions
• Can i only see what i want ?
• Get notification/ edit task inside eclipse ?
• Can context switching be automated ?
Welcome
Mylyn: Task Focused UI for eclipse

12. Information overload Gone!

13. Task Editing
• Edit Bugs inside
eclipse
• Receive notification of
hanges

14. Task Context Switching
• Task context
• Activating task, recreates the previous
state.
• Demo

15. Mylyn Installation
• Home
– http://eclipse.org/mylyn
• Update Manager for eclipse 3.3
– http://download.eclipse.org/tools/mylyn/updat
e/e3.3

16. Using Mylyn
Demo

17. Important Aspects
• Planning
• Work Week
• Coloring of task

18. Task connectors
Bugzilla
•
Jira
•
• Trac
• Generic Web Repository Connectors
• XPlanner

19. Acknowledgements
• Mylyn Presentations
http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/presentations/

20. Q&A
saurabh_arorain@yahoo.com
http://saurabhblog.blogspot.com/