Eclipse Mylyn
Access your bug trackers inside Eclipse, and work more productively with a task-focused user interface.
Download Eclipse Mylar 2.0.0.M3 for EasyEclipse 1.2.2:
Download Eclipse Mylyn 2.0.0 for EasyEclipse 1.3:
Mylyn adds two main, related, capabilities to Eclipse:
- Integration with task repositories (Bugzilla, Trac, and JIRA included), including the possibility to work with these repositories offline, when you don't have acces to the server.
- Task-focused user interface that makes working with very large workspaces as easy as working with small ones,
Note: Until release 1.2.2, Mylyn was called Mylar.
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Installing this plugin
This plugin is not shipped in any distribution. You must manually install it on an EasyEclipse distribution.
The dependent plugins Eclipse Java Development Tools and Eclipse CVS client must be present in the EasyEclipse distribution you use, or must be installed separately.
Getting started
Help is available for this plugin, in the Help > Help Contents menu in EasyEclipse.
However, the included help is minimal. You will find more help online.
Two tutorials are also present. To access the tutorials, select Help > Welcome, and in the welcome page, select the Tutorials icon (checkbox and pen). Then select Mylyn > Use the Task List or Mylyn > Use the Task-Focused UI.
Note also that to use some functionalities of the Task repositories integration, in particular to cache the tasks in Mylyn and work off-line, you must install some specific software on the Task repository server. See the FAQ for more information.
Useful links
Changelog
Changes in EasyEclipse 1.3.0:
- Upgraded to Eclipse Mylyn 2.0.0.
- Changed name from Mylar to Mylyn.
- Changed composition: Added the Mylyn SDK, so that the Subclipse Mylyn plugin has all its dependency. Left out, however, the
org.eclipse.mylyn.pde.uithat has a dependency on Eclipse PDE.
- Upgraded to Eclipse Mylyn 2.0.0.M3.
- Upgraded to Eclipse Mylyn 0.9.2.
- Upgraded to Eclipse Mylyn 1.0.0.
- Upgraded to Eclipse Mylyn 0.9.0.
- Initial release (with Eclipse Mylyn 0.5.0).
Credits and License
Credits: Eclipse Foundation, Mik Kersten, Mylyn team
Copyright (c) Eclipse contributors and others. 2000-2007. All rights reserved.
This plugin is licensed under the Eclipse Public License 1.0 license.
There is something wrong with this plugin for EasyEclipse 1.2.2. When I try to install another plugin, I get this error:
‘The current configuration contains errors and this operation can have unpredictable results.
Eclipse Mylar (2.0.0.M3) requires plug-in “org.eclipse.pde.ui”.’
This happened when I tried to install Abator For Eclise (http://ibatis.apache.org/abator.html) and EclipseWiki (http://eclipsewiki.sourceforge.net/).
I had to disable Mylar in order to be able to install the other plugins.
Yes this is a known issue. I have pending bugs @ eclipse on the topic. They should be corrected n future versions.
In the meantime you could try to also install PDE on top of your install.
BTW, if you have a good experience with Abatis and Eclipsewiki, please enter a feature request so we could ship them in the future.