Mylyn
| Developer(s) | Eclipse Foundation |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 3.0
/ June 25, 2008 |
| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Type | task management |
| License | Eclipse Public License |
| Website | http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/ |
Mylyn is a subsystem of Eclipse for task management.
The project name comes from Myelin, an electrically-insulating layer that surrounds neurons. The old name of this project was Mylar. However, the old name is also a trademark of a boPET film company. Therefore, Eclipse Foundation decided to change the project name. [citation needed]
Mylyn works by making tasks an essential part of Eclipse and integrating rich and offline editing for repositories such as Bugzilla, Trac, and JIRA.
Once the tasks are integrated, Mylyn monitors work activity to identify information relevant to the task-at-hand, and uses this task context to focus the Eclipse UI on the related information.
It focuses on improving productivity by reducing searching, scrolling, and navigation. By making task context explicit, Mylyn also facilitates multitasking, planning, reusing past efforts, and sharing expertise.
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