Mylyn and Implementors
I migrated last week to Eclipse 3.3.0 and during usual routine of installing plugins (must to have: JBossIDE, SpringIDE, Subclipse) I decided to try two plugins I haven’t been using yet. First is a subproject from Eclipse Tools project called Implementors. It fills a gap in standard Eclipse source code navigation which doesn’t really well support working with interfaces. With Implementors plugin it is possible to jump to implementation of an interface and to an interface of implementation. Sounds unimpressive yeah? But it is really useful plugin and I could call it a “Plugin of the Month in Category Simple but Cool”. If I had that category. So, whenever you edit a class which has dependencies defined as interfaces just hit Alt-F3 on a method from an interface to go to implementation. If you have more than one implementation you will have a choice. Ctrl-Alt-F3 will take you to interface. Thanks Andy for introducing that plugin!
The second plugin I wanted to write about is Mylyn formerly known as Mylar. I have heard about this plugin long time ago, talked about it with Tomaz many times but never actually tried it out. My bad and now I regret that. Because I found Mylyn just awesome. In couple of words Mylyn is a task focused ui for Eclipse which filters all unneeded information noise, leaving you only relevant information. It monitors your activity when working on a particular task and creates a context of that task which makes it is very easy to switch between tasks. No more navigating, searching, scrolling again. Mylyn integrates with repositories like JIRA, Bugzilla or Trac. There is also option of using local task repository.
As I use Scrum Works for task management I would like to use that repository with Mylyn but couldn’t find a connector for that one. Anyone solved that problem?
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