Just came back from Toronto JUG Meeting, we don’t have meeting for almost 4 month already. I really feel I miss it so much.

Toronto JUG meeting is always a fun event to attend, you will have chance to meet a lot of good Java/J2EE Developers from companies around Toronto.

Today’s presentation is given by Eugene Kuleshov , a software developer whom contributes to several open-source Java Projects, such as ASM, Maven and Eclipse. I’ve seen him giving another session about M2 (Maven Eclipse plug-in) a year ago. He is absolute a great Java Developer!

Today’s topis is about Eclipse Mylyn. I’ve used Mylyn for years, back from it was called “Mylar“. I really appreciate this great plug-in from Eclipse Community. Mylyn is a huge time saver and excellent collaborate framework.

What is Mylyn?

Mylyn is a Task-Focused Interface for Eclipse that reduces information overload and makes multi-tasking easy. It does this by making tasks a first class part of Eclipse, and integrating rich and offline editing for repositories such as Bugzilla, Trac, and JIRA.

Once your tasks are integrated, Mylyn monitors your work activity to identify information relevant to the task-at-hand, and uses this task context to focus the Eclipse UI on the interesting information, hide the uninteresting, and automatically find what’s related.

This puts the information you need to get work done at your fingertips and improves productivity by reducing searching, scrolling, and navigation. By making task context explicit Mylyn also facilitates multitasking, planning, reusing past efforts, and sharing expertise.

This picture is showing what Eclipse will look like after having Mylyn installed.

What features Mylyn provides?

• Task-Focused User Interface – the interface automatically hides items which are not part of the current task, and keeps track of what items are related to a given task
• Integration with Task Repositories – draws lists of tasks from Bugzilla, JIRA, and Trac as well as several other providers
• Rich editing and transparent offline work – automatic caching of task changes, and automatic synchronization when back online

Want to know more:

• Mylyn official website
• Very detail tutorial from IBM DeveloperWorks: Part1, Part2
• Mylyn FAQ
• Mylyn Extensions – If you are a Ruby, Python or Javascript developer, you can use Mylyn too!

So, go ahead download it, install it and have some fun!

By the way, every JUG meeting will have some job opening announcement. If you are looking from Java job or Java Developers, it is the event to go too.

Here is the list of this month:

• RPM is looking from Sr./Jr. Java Developers
• iLoveReward is looking from Sr./Jr. Java Developers
• Quest is looking from Sr. Java Developes and QA
• TEK Systems as always