Mylyn Conference Submissions

The following is a listing of submissions of Mylar-related talks, tutorials and demonostrations.

NOTE: for conferences that have not yet occurred the submissions listings are drafts and not to be distributed.

OOPSLA 2007 (rejected)

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Tutorial

Title: Task-focused programming with Mylar

Abstract (max 200 words): Mylar enhances productivity by seamlessly integrating tasks into Eclipse and automatically managing the contexts of those tasks as you work. This tutorial will start by demonstrating how you can use Mylar to work with the bug reports, enhancement requests, user stories, and other tasks that make up your workday. We will give an overview of working with task repositories which Mylar integrates with Eclipse, and for which it provides features such as offline editing, background synchronizations and change notifications. We will then cover the benefits of bringing all of your work items into a single task list within Eclipse, and demonstrate Mylar’s scheduling and focused workweek technology, which facilitate planning and multi-tasking. Mylar also provides support for automatically managing your task context makes working with very large Eclipse workspaces as easy as work with small ones. We will show you how to get the most out of task context management when working with Java, plug-in and web applications and will give a brief overview how to implement context bridges for custom models. By the end of this tutorial you will be ready to start using Mylar on your project.

Keywords: Mylar, Eclipse, tasks, bugs, issues, context, Java, web

Presenters:

• Eugene Kuleshov (contact): Eugene Kuleshov is an independent consultant with over 15 years in the software development experience. Eugene is a committer on Mylar, Subclipse and Maven Integration for Eclipse. Eugene is also member of the team that created ASM, the fastest Java bytecode manipulation toolkit. He is currently working on integration of the Terracotta transparent clustering runtime with other frameworks, including Spring and Wicket. He has written several articles for ONJava, java.net and BEA dev2dev and presented at numerous conferences and Java user groups. Eugene is currently serving in an independent expert role for JSR-268 and JSR-308.

• Mik Kersten: Mik is the lead of the Mylar eclipse.org project, and a committer on the AspectJ and AJDT projects. While working Xerox PARC Mik created the IDE support for AspectJ, and plug-ins for JBuilder, NetBeans, VisualStudio, and Emacs. He created the Task-Focused UI for his PhD at the University of British Columbia and is now the President & CTO of Tasktop Technologies. Mik has previously presented top attendee-ranked OOPSLA tutorials.
• Also need: include name, e-mail address, affiliation, address, and a brief biography listing their expertise and experience with the subject. .

Attendee background: Familiarity with the Eclipse IDE a plus but not required. We recommend that attendees bring a laptop with the latest version of Eclipse and Mylar installed.

Tutorial objectives: Participants will learn how Mylar's integrated task management and automatic context management provide a dramatic productivity increase when working on large object-oriented systems. Participants will also learn how to facilitate collaboration and the use agile methods using tasks and task context. If participants arrive with their existing project configured for Eclipse they will leave with Mylar configured for their day-to-day work.

Presentation format: 2/3 slide-based lecture, 1/3 hands-on exercises. Hands-on segement will require laptops. Attendees without laptops can pair up with others.

Scheduling constraints: If the presenters have any constraints on when they can present the tutorial, these should be listed. These can refer to specific days or to other OOPSLA activities to which the presenters are committed.

Can repeat? yes.

Tutorial presentation history. This tutorial will be presented at Eclipse Forum Europe 2007, and at other teaching engagements between now and OOPSLA.

Target audience: practitioners, managers, educators, researchers interested in using Mylar.

Status: The tutorial covers material for which significant validation exists.

URL: http://eclipse.org/mylar