what is Mylyn in eclipse ? Pydev plugin says Mylyn integration

Question

When i install some plugins, I used to see this term Mylyn Integration. what exactly is it ? I tried to add pydev plugin to my eclipse.

Answer 1

Here is the homepage for Mylyn: http://eclipse.org/mylyn/

Here is a summary description (taken from that page):

Mylyn is the task and application lifecycle management (ALM) framework for Eclipse. It provides:

• The revolutionary task-focused interface

  Realigns the IDE around tasks so that you see only the code that's relevant

• A task management tool for developers

  Averaging 1 million downloads/month, Mylyn is the most popular IDE tool for ALM

• A broad ecosystem of Agile and ALM integrations

  Dozens of extensions integrate Mylyn with ALM and developer collaboration tools

Hope that helps.