
Mylyn is the reincarnation of Mylar, an amazing task-focused tool which has been underdevelopment for a few years.
- The Myelin substance accelerates our thoughts by making neurons much more efficient at conducting electricity. The Mylyn name is a tribute to this substance, as many users claim that our tools increase efficiency to the point where we can code at the speed of thought. The preferred pronunciation is 'mIl&n, similar to the pronunciation of "myelin". The project was previously called Mylar.
- The goal of the Mylyn project is to evolve a Task-Focused user interface for the Eclipse platform. At the core of Mylyn is a mechanism that that makes our interaction with a system explicit. Existing tools make the structure of the system explicit, and as a result overload us with irrelevant information when the size of a system dwarfs what we need to know to complete a task.
All the tools are open source. To see how Eclipse, Mylyn, Subversion and Trac can work together check out the Eclipse Mylyn FAQ.