Intent

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Presentation

Intent is a proposed new open source project under the Mylyn top-level project. The project is currently in the Proposal phase. The proposal has been published and is waiting for comments.

The main purpose of Intent is to allow developers to easily write a documentation up-to-date with any development artifact (models, code, environment…). The documentation, integrated with other Eclipse tools, then becomes truly useful and is no longer a burden that developer have to carry to please their customers or their project manager.

Based on Donald Knuth’s Literate Programming concepts and allowing collaborative work around design tasks, Intent will be presented at Eclipse Con 2011.

"Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do."

Donald Knuth, Literate Programming (1984)

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Intent Overview

The following pages provide an overview of the Intent project :

• Project mission statement - general presentation of Intent
• Use Cases and Scenarios - step by step use cases with screenshots
• Architecture - design choices and extensibility
• June 2011 release plan - what we intend to do for the first Intent release
• Buzz - articles and blog posts about Intent

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Get involved

• FAQ - if the answer your are looking for is not here, just ask the question
• Further Readings - books, articles and scientific papers used to create Intent

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The Intent Project

Intent is an Eclipse based product created and developed by the Eclipse Strategic Member Obeo. It is meant to be included in the Eclipse release train of Eclipse 3.7 Indigo.

It is released under the Mylyn's Docs project.

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News

• 01/02/2011 : Intent proposal has been published
• 27/12/2010 : Intent will be at Eclipse Con 2011