Mylyn is a new paradigm in software development — Task focused development.
It greatly reduces information overload and makes multitasking easy. It synchronizes with a variety of Defect Tracking tools like Jira / Mantis / Bugzilla and integrates development context with the incoming tasks from the defect tracking tools. (See Eclipse Wiki on Mylyn Extensions for a list of external tools integrated with Mylyn.
You can find more at Mylyn Eclipse Page
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