CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
6 March 2007
Product News
CollabNet® and Tasktop Partner to Bring Eclipse, Mylar, Subversion and CollabNet Together
CollabNet®, the primary sponsor of the SubversionT open source project and a leading provider of collaborative software development solutions, announced that it has partnered with Tasktop Technologies , the company newly formed by the creators of the Mylar open source project, to integrate Eclipse, Mylar, Subversion and CollabNet. The integration of these leading development tools is the first of its kind and creates a highly productive working environment that makes tasks an integrated part of the developer's workflow throughout the lifecycle of a project.
Eclipse is rapidly becoming the IDE of choice for a large number of developers. Recent results from an EvansData survey show the continued momentum of Eclipse globally with the adoption rate more than doubling in the EMEA region. In parallel, Subversion has become the de-facto version control standard for globally distributed teams.
However, in order to maximize effectiveness, software development tools must be integrated at the developer desktop level where the highest productivity gains can be realized.
Because of the complexity of today's enterprise applications, all modern IDEs overload developers with information. The lack of task integration across tools causes developers to waste an inordinate amount of time on switching from one context to another when multi-tasking.
"The Eclipse Mylar tool solves the information overload problem by integrating rich task management facilities with Eclipse", says Mik Kersten, lead of the Mylar project ( http://eclipse.org/mylar ) and President & CTO of Tasktop Technologies. Mylar streamlines the developer workflow through its innovative Task-Focused UI. By showing developers only the information they need to see for any given task it improves productivity by removing the need for repeated searching, scrolling, and navigation." Field studies of Mylar have validated with statistical significance that it makes developers more productive.
Eclipse and Subversion are already closely integrated through the Subclipse project. CollabNet's partnership with Tasktop Technologies extends the Eclipse-CollabNet integration. Developers that are currently using Eclipse and CollabNet® Enterprise Edition will enjoy:
A simplified development environment
When working on a project, developers might have more than a dozen tools opened at the same time in different windows. The integration of Mylar and CollabNet simplifies the development environment and provides, within the Eclipse environment, access to the project tasks and artifacts managed in CollabNet Enterprise Edition.
Immediate Prioritization of Project Tasks managed in CollabNet Enteprise Edition
The integration between CollabNet and Mylar allows users to view CollabNet tasks from within Eclipse and enables Mylar's automatic context management to only present the information that's relevant to the task that the user is currently working on.
Improved productivity due to reduced information overload and easier multi-tasking
The consistent Eclipse-based UI between Eclipse, Mylar, CollabNet and Subversion, the prioritization of tasks and the one-click task switching, make developers a lot more productive.
"Since its inception, CollabNet has been committed to leading the industry in the tools and processes which allow software developers to collaborate more efficiently across geographically distributed teams," said Bill Portelli, CEO of CollabNet. "The deep integration of the Eclipse-based Mylar project and Subclipse capabilities into the CollabNet distributed software development platform is the first of its kind. It brings the task tracking capabilities of CollabNet across the development lifecycle directly to the developer's desktop and within their IDE environment. This level of integration offers a quantum leap in software development productivity."
The integration component will be available in April 2007 and will be downloadable at http://open.collab.net
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