Integrating with Mylyn 3.0

David Carver has blogged some useful experiences about porting from Mylyn 2.0 to 3.0. Mylyn 3.0 contains very significant API changes that make Mylyn connectors more robust and easier to create. This release represents a critical evolution in the maturity of the Mylyn project. The Europa release cycle brought us a very wide diversity of...

Mylyn 3.0 Endgame

There’s a light at the end of the 3.0 tunnel that Mylyn committers have been in—the light is a fast approaching train called Ganymede. Here’s a status update for both early adopters and integrators. Since last June’s Mylyn 2.0 and Europa release we’ve had three releases, and the ecosystem around Mylyn has evolved from a...

Building on Eclipse: the SpringSource Tool Suite

At EclipseCon, while showing the following screenshot, I was struck by the amount of open source collaboration and commercial innovation behind the bits on the screen. You’re looking at the recently launched SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) beta that SpringSource and Tasktop Technologies have been building. The screenshot showcases several open source projects interoperating via common...

Why the Spring Tool Suite is building on Eclipse

There have been some questions about whether the upcoming Spring Tool Suite (STS) will support other IDEs, such as IntelliJ IDEA. Rod Johnson and I recently answered some related questions on InfoQ, but the answer to this one is still evolving, so please consider sharing your thoughts on it. In choosing an IDE integration strategy...