Mylar Integrator Reference

We recommend that those interested in integrating Mylar email mylar-dev@eclipse.org regarding for pointers to examples and guidance on upcoming changes.


 
Extensibility overview

Following the Eclipse conventions, Mylar will not make any API guarantees until the 1.0 release.  However, a driving goal of the Mylar project is to provide a task management and focused UI framework that can be easily extended by any Eclipse SDK and RCP based applications.  The Mylar components are loosely coupled by preliminary extension points and APIs, and these will be stabilizing between the 0.5 and 1.0 releases. 


Frameworks and APIs

Mylar provides the following Frameworks.  See the EclipseCon 2006 presentation for more information.

In addition Mylar provides the following API:


Task repository requirements

Mylar can be extended to any task/bug/issue/story repository or tracker by creating a Repository Connector that links Mylar's task management facilities with the repository.  Connection to the task repository is handled by the connector (e.g. via HTTP for the Bugzilla Connector, via SOAP for the JIRA Connector).  The following are required to support task list integration:

The following are optional:

The following additional mechanisms enable task authoring: