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What's Cooking at Eclipse


Before the Europa release is fit for consumption, several tasty dishes will be golden brown and ready to serve

By Edward J. Correia
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October 15, 2006 —  (Page 1 of 4)
It’s official: The next Eclipse simultaneous release will be called Europa, continuing the Jovian moon pattern established with Callisto. But with Europa’s launch date still more than half a year away, several important projects are expected to arrive hot from the oven before Europa hits the table in mid-2007.

Among the most far-reaching and broadly appealing of those soon-to-be-released Eclipse projects is Mylar, a plug-in that can increase developer productivity by managing and filtering tasks based on context.

“Developers waste a tremendous amount of time scrolling, navigating and parsing information instead of getting work done,” said project lead Mik Kersten, a Ph.D. student at the University of British Columbia. The familiar Eclipse Package Explorer can contain tens of thousands of elements for even a small enterprise application, which he said results in information overload.

Mylar introduces context management and task management facilities to Eclipse, permitting tasks to be stored in a repository as objects. “When working with a fully integrated connector, you can rely purely on Mylar for working with that repository. Everything you can do in Bugzilla, you can now do in Eclipse,” he said, for example. Mylar also will support Trac and JIRA issue trackers. “Rudimentary support for Google Code, SourceForge and gforce” repositories also will be delivered with 1.0, he said, including the ability to plan, save, query and edit tasks through the Eclipse embedded browser.

Adding a form of filtering to the Package Explorer, context management monitors a developer’s interactions within Eclipse and automatically identifies information relevant to the task at hand, according to its documentation. Using that data—which can include a developer’s access to methods, APIs, documents and other artifacts—the tool focuses Eclipse views and editors to show only relevant information. “The more you use Mylar, the more productive you become,” Kersten said.

Mylar also contains a rich editor capable of drag-and-drop attachments and offline editing. Integrated change notifications allow developers to use Mylar’s task list as an inbox instead of an e-mail client.




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