In this demo, Michael Coté of RedMonk talks with Mik Kersten, who demonstrates the JIRA connector for Mylyn. Mik shows how the JIRA connector is used to provide a rich, desktop interface for the JIRA issue tracker and then shows how the “self micro-managing” features of Mylyn layer on-top of JIRA.

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Mik Kersten, the fearless leader of the Mylyn (formerly Mylar) project, has a sit-down with Daniel to talk about Mylyn - what it is and why it's good for you. Gain insight into one of Eclipse's most popular projects, and catch a few tips to help streamline when using Eclipse.

Total running time 20:12 minutes

Coté talks with Ed Merks about the Eclipse Modeling Framework project, or EMF. Ed gives us a quick overview of the framework and new features and then walks us through designing a model in EMF, generating code, and then round-tripping back and forth. Watching the demo, you can see how EMF could be used to create data models at the begining of a project and then maintain them throughout.

Total running time 23:26 minutes

This 4th Eclipse Europa screencast from Michael Coté is on the Data Tools Platform project, or DTP. As with all Eclipse projects, DTP provides quite a bit of platform plumbing, but in this screencast we see many of the more end-user facing tools that are available in the Europa bundle. Most interesting to Coté's unit testing memories of woes is the DbUnit integration. As he comments in the screencast, the SQL query tools look like they’d have been a good enough way to graphically browse various databases without having to pony up cash.

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Total running time 22:09 minutes

The third installment in Redmonk's Eclipse Europa screencast series is now up, this time on Mylyn, formally known as Mylar.

Michael has mentioned Mylyn/Mylar several times before — here and most recently in the context of Europa — an it’s one of his favorite Eclipse projects.

Mylyn is a Task-Focused UI for Eclipse that reduces information overload and makes multi-tasking easy. It does this by making tasks a first class part of Eclipse, and integrating rich and offline editing for repositories such as Bugzilla, Trac, and JIRA. Once your tasks are integrated, Mylyn monitors your work activity to identify information relevant to the task-at-hand, and uses this task context to focus the Eclipse UI on the interesting information, hide the uninteresting, and automatically find what's related. This puts the information you need to get work done at your fingertips and improves productivity by reducing searching, scrolling, and navigation. By making task context explicit Mylyn also facilitates multitasking, planning, reusing past efforts, and sharing expertise.

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Total running time 18:12 minutes

Fresh from his latest webinar, Andrey Platov talks about DLTK, dynamic language IDEs, and (everyone's favorite) Ruby on Rails. Find out what the next steps for DLTK may be, and what we can expect in the impending Europa release.

Total running time 10:25 minutes

Michael Coté talks with Virgil Dodson, Java Reporting Evangelist at Actuate about the new features in Eclipse BIRT. BIRT is an Eclipse project that allows you to connect to various data sources, build reports with those sources, and the UIs needed for your end-users to view those reports.

After a brief chat on the topic of BIRT and reporting in general, Virgil gives us a demo of the latest features in the upcoming BIRT 2.2.0 release.

Total running time 19:12 minutes

In this screencast, Michael Coté talks with Eclipse Equinox project lead Jeff McAffer about the new version of the Eclipse Equinox OSGi framework in Eclipse Europa. We see a demo of the the new server-side capabilities in Equinox and the development model used. The notion of "modules" and "components" is fast becoming an important topic in the Java world, so it's interesting to see the Eclipse platform's framework moving from the desktop to the server.

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Total running time 22:09 minutes

Doug Gaff, technical chair for EclipseCon and lead for the DSDP project, sits down with EclipseZone's own Daniel Spiewak and discuss eRCP, NAB, TmL and the future of Eclipse on embedded devices.

Total running time 30:45 minutes

Milinkovich, in summarizing the benefits of the RCP approach, said, "This is about bringing Java back to the desktop," a thought which both he and Taylor said applies to all developers. As an example, when questioned about its benefits to current .NET developers, Milinkovich noted that, "For programmers who program in C#, for example, it's not a big jump. And the fact that developers can build, deploy, and manage applications on multiple desktops and operating systems make this a differentiator."

Instantiations CEO Mike Taylor outlined a number of the key benefits of his company's product, RCP Developer, which the Instantiations website notes is designed "to accelerate the creation of Eclipse RCP applications by providing tools for constructing and testing graphical user interfaces and packaging rich client applications for deployment."