More on Mylyn

Since my previous post on Mylyn, I have continued to use and am growing to like it even more despite the fact that there is no connector to our issue tracking tool of choice, Lighthouse Pro. The context focusing is great for juggling multiple tasks. It’s so easy for me to come back to a task and have all the files I need at the ready. Now that I am using it regularly, there are two things I am noticing that are minor issues for me. In fact, they may already have been addressed in the latest release of Mylyn.

Using Mylyn to manage development tasks

Post CFUnited, I am trying to implement many of the tips and tricks I learned about at the conference. One of those is a tool called Mylyn. Mylyn is a plugin to the Eclipse IDE that can hook into many bug tracking tools and help manage development tasks. The eyecatching feature of Mylyn is the context focused tasks. Simply put, Mylyn shows you only the relevant files and views for the task on which you are working. I’m new to Mylyn having just installed it a day ago. I’m actually using an older Eclipse install (3.2) which means I’m using Mylyn 2.0. It has since been updated to Mylyn 3.0 for use with Eclipse 3.3+. I had a lot of issues with Europa and CFEclipse last year and just never updated on my PC.