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Integrators: if your tool builds on or integrates Mylyn please add it by editing this page. Order is alphabetical.

Connectors bundled with Mylyn can be found on the Download Page. You can vote for other task repository connectors on bug reports.

Distributions

Embarcadero JBuilder

JBuilder 2008 bundles Mylyn and includes a task repository connector for XPlanner. For more information see the video documentation.

License: Commercial Status: mature Compatibility: Mylyn 3.0

SpringSource Tool Suite

The SpringSource Tool Suite is an Eclipse and Mylyn-powered development environment for building enterprise applications using the Spring Portfolio. The tool incorporates a task-focused user interface to speed development, architecture review tools to guide developers toward best practices, and runtime error analysis with automated resolution lookup to help developers solve problems in running applications.

License: Commercial Status: mature Compatibility: Mylyn 3.0

STAR Workbench Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail

The STAR Workbench 2.0 bundles Mylyn and includes a task repository connectors for Bugzilla and Mantis. The STAR Workbench is made available to members of STAR a business to business standards organization for the automotive, marine, powersports, and heavy duty/light truck industries.

License: Non-Profit Status: mature Compatibility: Mylyn 3.0

Tasktop

The task-focused desktop (Tasktop) is a commercial and supported version of Mylyn. Tasktop extends the task-focused interface to web and file browsing and provides advanced planning and Time Tracking/Reporting facilities. Tasktop includes the following additional connectors: Microsoft Outlook Tasks, Calendar and Email, Google Calendar and GMail. Tasktop also provides one-click install of certified partner connectors, including CollabNet, JIRA and Rally. Integration with the Windows desktop enables focusing of external files and applications. Tasktop also includes advanced time tracking and reporting facilities, great for determining what tasks and projects you have been spending time on, helping to hone estimates, and complete time sheets. Tasktop also provides a full-featured web browser within Eclipse, as well as integration with web applications such as MediaWiki and del.icio.us. Tasktop can be installed into Eclipse or as a standalone RCP application.

License: Commercial Status: mature Compatibility: Mylyn 3.1

Task Repository Connectors

Assembla Tickets

Assembla provides online workspaces to accelerate software development teams, with features that include code repositories and ticketing.

The Assembla Integrated Ticket Tool is a simple but powerful system for keeping track of tasks, features, and bugs. It includes many easy-to-use functionalities.

Assembla MyLyn connector allows users to use Assembla Tickets in Eclipse Environment

Status: mature License: EPL Compatibility: Mylyn 3.0 Update sites:

Atlassian JIRA (Mylyn Project)

The JIRA Connector is available as one of the Mylyn Extras.

Status: mature License: EPL Compatibility: Mylyn 3.0 Update sites:

Atlassian Bamboo

Monitor Bamboo continuous integration server builds and create Mylyn tasks from failed builds.

  • Notifications and status at a glance
  • Drill into details without leaving IDE
  • Create tasks from failed builds
  • Re-run tests locally

Status: beta License: EPL Compatibility: Mylyn 3.1 Update sites:

Atlassian Crucible

Complete entire code reviews in Eclipse by configuring Crucible as a Mylyn task repository.

  • Open reviews in rich editor or diff view
  • Navigate related code for greater context
  • Create and response comments in-line

Status: beta License: EPL Compatibility: Mylyn 3.1 Update sites:

Bugzilla (Mylyn Project)

The Bugzilla Connector is bundled with Mylyn.

Status: mature License: EPL Compatibility: Mylyn 3.0 Update sites:

ClearQuest (Tasktop)

The Tasktop connector for IBM Rational ClearQuest allows you to query your ClearQuest server and access your change requests from Eclipse. Developers can then quickly view and update requests without leaving Eclipse or repeatedly switching to a ClearQuest client or web browser. Teams using ClearQuest can now focus the Eclipse UI on only the code that is relevant for each change request and take advantage of task-focused programming productivity. The ClearQuest connector is available as an extension to for Tasktop Pro.

Status: Released License: Commercial Compatibility: Mylyn 3.2

CodeBeamer

CodeBeamer from Intland Software, GmbH is a highly scalable collaborative software development platform used by sites such as JavaForge.com. The CodeBeamer connector for Mylyn gives you an access to bug/issue trackers in a project hosted at JavaForge.com (or any other hosting site powered by CodeBeamer). You can create bugs/issues in Eclipse, you can associate Mylyn task context with the issues, you can query or search all trackers in your CodeBeamer managed project.

Status: beta License: tbd (free) Compatibility: Mylyn 2.0 Update sites:

CollabNet Issue Tracker (IssueZilla)

Issue Tracker is spin off project from bugzilla and is part of the CollabNet Enterprise Edition tool suite. This connector allows users to access and manipulate Issue Tracker issues through Eclipse Mylyn.

Status: mature License: CollabNet Desktop Software End User License Agreement Compatibility: Mylyn 3.0 Update sites:

CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise Edition

Tracker is a flexible tracking system that is part of the SourceForge Enterprise Edition (SFEE) tool suite. Tracker's primary focus is on software artifacts such as defects and enhancements, but is suitable for handling many other record oriented artifacts. Tracker is fully integrated with version control tools. This connector allows users to access and manipulate Tracker artifacts through Eclipse Mylyn.

Status: mature License: CollabNet Desktop Software End User License Agreement Compatibility: Mylyn 3.0 Update sites:

CollabNet Project Tracker

Project Tracker a flexible tracking system that is part of the CollabNet Enterprise Edition tool suite. Project Tracker's primary focus is on software artifacts such as defects and enhancements, but is suitable for handling many other record oriented artifacts. Project Tracker is fully integrated with version control tools. This connector allows users to access and manipulate Project Tracker artifacts through Eclipse Mylyn.

Status: mature License: CollabNet Desktop Software End User License Agreement Compatibility: Mylyn 3.0 Update sites:

EmForge

EmForge is open-source, workflow-based task management system integrated wiki, project & task managment, source browser and reports (in many cases like trac) but allowed to configure tasks workflows with using another Eclipse plugin: GPD from jBoss. A Mylyn connector is available for EmForge 0.24 or later with the following functionality: Connect to EmForge server; create queries with many options; Process the tasks, including working with attachments and comment,

Status: beta License: EPL Compatibility: Mylyn 2.0 Update sites:

EPlanner

EPlanner is a Mylyn connector for use with ExtremePlanner [1].

Status: alpha (still in design and development) License: EPL Compatibility: Mylyn 3.0

FogBugz (Bugclipse)

FogBugz is a complete project management system for software teams. Bugclipse is a Mylyn connector that enables import of FogBugz cases as Mylyn tasks within eclipse. It also allows for automatic time tracking and generates timesheet reports. Case details can be exported in convenient formats (html, pdf, excel, ps). The complete set of features can be found here. A trial version is available for download

Status: Mature License: Commercial Compatibility: Mylyn 2.0 Update sites:

FogBugz (Foglyn)

Foglyn is a FogBugz connector for Mylyn which is aimed to work with Mylyn 3.0 (shipped in Eclipse 3.4 -- Ganymede, but also works with Eclipse 3.3 -- Europa) and future versions.

Status: Stable License: Commercial Compatibility: Mylyn 3.0 Update sites:

Industrial Connector (with SQL using Ibatis)

Industrial Connector for Mylyn 3.0 and 2.3 allows out of the box connection to any JDBC accessible SQL database using Apache Ibatis SqlMap configuration files. It can also be extended for any sort of persistence by implementing one Java interface IPersistor. THis allows simple connection to XML, Microsoft Excel, etc to be implemented quickly. Includes an extensive local repository with comments and attachments example based on Derby. Intension of Industrial TSI is to make this connector available as part of Mylyn under EPL. For Mylyn 2.3 use the com.industrialtsi.db Feature, for Mylyn 3.0.x use the org.eclipse.mylyn.sql feature. More info on wiki page or Eclipse Bugzilla

Status: Beta License: intention EPL Compatibility: Mylyn 3.0 and 2.3 Update sites:

Google Calendar (Tasktop)

Tasktop (the task-focused desktop) synchronizes tasks from your Task List to selected Goolge Calendars based on either Scheduled date or Due date. Task and non-task events from your Google calendars are displayed in Tasktop's agenda and present a notification popup when drawing near.

Status: mature License: Commercial Compatibility: Mylyn 3.1

Google Email (Tasktop)

Tasktop (the task-focused desktop) makes creation of tasks in your Task List from Gmail as simple as tagging a Gmail message. Easily create a new task in your Task List from any web enabled device using Gmail's email filter/labeling. Just send yourself an email with a special prefix and Tasktop will sync it to your Task List.

Status: mature License: Commercial Compatibility: Mylyn 3.1

Mantis

This project is an Eclipse Mylyn Repository plug-in for the Mantis Bug Tracking application using the Mantis Connect SOAP interface. If you would like to help develop the plugin -- see contributing on the connector home page to get started.

The latest version adds support for the majority of the mylyn features, and close to the feature set of the trac plugin. The 3.0.2 version adds support for Mylyn 3.1 or greater.

Status: Released License: EPL Compatibility: Mylyn 3.x Update sites:

Origo

Origo is an open-source software development platform developed at ETH Zurich. Users can host open-source as well as closed-source projects. The platform provides an issue tracker, wiki pages, a SVN repository, workitem notifications for various events (like commits and wiki edits), community features and much more. The Mylyn connector provides task list integration and rich editing for the Origo issue tracker.

Status: stable (but not all Mylyn features are supported yet) License: MIT Compatibility: Mylyn 2.0 Update sites:


Microsoft Outlook & Exchange (Tasktop)

Tasktop's Outlook Email Task integration allows you to easily create tasks from Outlook email and manage them along with all your other tasks Mylyn's Task List. Aside from the usual Mylyn benefits such as task scheduling, with Tasktop, documents and web sites are captured with the active task making multitasking that much easier. Tasktop also supports integration with Outlook tasks and provides synchronization and notification of tasks between the Mylyn Task List and Outlook Calendar.

Status: Released License: EPL Compatibility: Mylyn 3.1

Rally

Rally helps organizations of all sizes shorten their development cycles, minimize risk, and collaborate across teams with on-demand Agile lifecycle management products. The Rally Connector for Eclipse/Mylyn allows the display and editing of Rally artifacts along with the ability to share Mylyn contexts between developers.

Status: mature License: Commercial Compatibility: Mylyn 3.0, Mylyn 2.0 (for Eclipse 3.2) Update sites:

Request Tracker (RT)

Quote from http://bestpractical.com/rt/: "RT is an enterprise-grade ticketing system which enables a group of people to intelligently and efficiently manage tasks, issues, and requests submitted by a community of users."

The RT Connector supports adding a repository, creating queries, showing ticket data, editing (a large subset of) ticket data, creating new tickets, commenting and adding correspondence for tickets, resolving tickets, taking, stealing, merging tickets and displaying a ticket's history.

Status: alpha (not for use in production environments) License: EPL Compatibility: Mylyn 2.0 Update sites:

Remember The Milk

Remember The Milk (RTM) is the best way to manage your tasks. Never forget the milk (or anything else) again. Remember the Milk combined with this connector is the perfect solution for managing your tasks across multiple Eclipse workspaces or machines.

The RTM connector allows for the adding of a repository, creating queries and creating and editing tasks.

Status: alpha (not for use in production environments) License: EPL Compatibility: Mylyn 3.0 Update site:

TD/OMS

TD/OMS is a System i based professional Application Lifecycle Management system. It manages the complete software lifecycle from incident to remote implementation. The Mylyn interface was created with the Database Connector by Industrial-TSI and Maarten Meijer more information on the database connector can be found on the Mylyn incubator pages.

Status: Mature License: Commercial Compatibility: Mylyn 3.1

Trac (Mylyn Project)

The Trac Connector is available as one of the Mylyn Extras.

Status: mature License: EPL Compatibility: Mylyn 3.0 Update sites:

Track+

Track+ is a web based professional project management and issue tracking system. Trackmylyn is a Mylyn connector and user interface that permits to work with a Track+ server from within Eclipse. Input masks are completely configurable, and resemble those configured on the server. The adapter also allows for time and expense tracking.

Status: Mature License: EPL Compatibility: Mylyn 3.0 Update sites:

Web Templates (Mylyn Project)

The Web Templates Connector is available as one of the Mylyn Incubator features.

Status: mature License: EPL Compatibility: Mylyn 3.0 Update sites:

XPlanner (Mylyn Project)

The XPlanner Connector is available as one of the Mylyn Incubator features.

Status: mature License: EPL Compatibility: Mylyn 3.0 Update sites:

Document Bridges

Dynamic Languages via DLTK

The Eclipse DLTK project provides structure bridges that support Mylyn's context model for languages such as Tcl, Ruby, Python and JavaScript. For more information see the Xored video documentation.

Status: beta License: EPL Compatibility: Mylyn 2.0 Update site:

Pydev

The Pydev project provides a structure bridge that supports the Pydev Package Explorer and Python elements in the Project Explorer. It currently works at the resource-level.

Status: beta License: EPL Compatibility: Mylyn 2.0 Update site:

Spring IDE

The Spring IDE Mylyn Integration provides:

  • A Structure and UI Bridge for Spring elements that works on Spring-element level (<bean />, <property /> or <constructor-arg /> elements)
  • Automatic code folding in XML editor based on current interest context (Code Folding for Structured Text Editors needs to be enabled)
  • Content assist proposal resorting based current interest context in the XML editor
  • Interest-level filtering in the Spring specific views, like Spring Explorer and Beans Cross References View

Status: mature License: EPL Compatibility: Mylyn 3.0 Update site:

Office Documents and Web Pages (Tasktop)

Tasktop (the task-focused desktop) extends Mylyn's reach beyond source code to the office documents and web pages interacted with during the workweek. Similar to how Mylyn reveals the important code artifacts associated, so does Tasktop reveal the important office documents and web pages interacted with as part of the active task. On some platforms, Tasktop also supports management of external application windows so they are opened and closed just as is expected of code documents.

Status: mature License: Commercial Compatibility: Mylyn 3.1

Version Control

Subclipse (SVN)

Subclipse is a Subversion client for Eclipse. Supported features:

  • automatic Change Set management (see Mylyn FAQ Team Support)
  • automatic commit messages
  • Open Corresponding Task action to open Mylyn's task editor from the Change Set in Synchronize view and from entries in History view
  • automatic linking projects with issue trackers using bugraq:url svn property

Status: mature License: EPL Compatibility: Mylyn 3.0 Update site:

Subversive (SVN)

Subversive is a Subversion client for Eclipse. See Polarion's Mylyn Integration Quick Start

Status: mature License: EPL Compatibility: Mylyn 3.0 Subversive update site:

Integrations

Maven Integration for Eclipse

Firefox (Tasktop)

Tasktop (the task-focused desktop) extends Mylyn's reach to capture the web pages visited to as part of the active task. The Tasktop Firefox Add-On enables capture of browsing context as it happens in Firefox and management of Firefox browser tabs on a per-task-basis all from within Tasktop just as effectively as code pages are managed by Mylyn.

Status: mature License: Commercial Compatibility: Mylyn 3.1


Mylyn integration feature in the Maven Interation for Eclipse provides automatic linking of Eclipse projects with task repositories. Maven project metadata is used as a single place to get information about issue tracking, source control and continuous integration system used by the project.

Status: mature License: EPL Compatibility: Mylyn 2.x, 3.x Update sites:

Utilities

Mylyn WikiText

Mylyn WikiText is a set of plug-ins for Eclipse that provide lightweight markup (wiki) parsing, editing and display capabilities to the Eclipse platform and Mylyn. WikiText provides a parser for wiki markup and converts the markup to HTML, Docbook, DITA, or Eclipse Help format, either via the API or by using Ant tasks. WikiText also provides UI components (such as an editor) integrating with Eclipse and the Mylyn task editor.

See Mylyn/FAQ#WikiText for more details.

Status: mature License: EPL Compatibility: Mylyn 3.0.2

Update sites:

Stand-Alone Download: http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/downloads/

Eclipse Timeline

Eclipse Timeline is a scrolling timeline view showing events from variant event sources include Mylyn tasks.

Status: beta License: BSD Compatibility: Mylyn 2.0 Update site: http://eclipsetimeline.googlecode.com/svn/updates/

Fishtail

Fishtail uses the context of a currently active Mylyn task to formulate web searches about the code of interest. Searches are performed for a variety of categories, such as articles, tutorials, and examples of code use. Fishtail ranks the resultant hits, presenting the most context-relevant ones in its view.

Status: beta License: EPL Compatibility: Mylyn 2.0 Update site: http://cs.ubc.ca/labs/spl/projects/fishtail/update/

Jaret Calendar

Jaret Calendar is a plugin integrating the google calendar and a local calendar and allows viewing and manipulating mylyn tasks in a gantt view.

Status: alpha License: GPL Compatibility: Mylyn 2.0 Update site: to come

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