Industrial SQL Connector for Mylyn updated for Eclipse 3.8/4.2 and Mylyn 3.8.0 (now version 0.9.9)

The most recent Mylyn update to version 3.8.0 broke the Industrial SQL Connecor for Mylyn, but no longer. The change was minor but illustrative: we "borrowed" the DatePicker from org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.provisional.commons.ui and as this is clearly marked internal, it was bound to break at some point. Luckily the Mylyn developers moved this DatePicker out of internal API so everybody can use it. It is now part of the org.eclipse.mylyn.commons.workbench Bundle. If you want to use for Mylyn before 3.8.0 you should check out code from SVN tag /tags/mylyn-3.7.0 The updated code is in /trunk/ I also update the info at Eclipse Marketplace and the code at EclipseLabs. The Industrial SQL Connector for Mylyn allows you to set up a Mylyn connection to any accessible database with Task related information. A default Query UI for some very basic task settings is also provided. You define a set of SQL queries, and package these with some configuration in a fragment, the connector does the rest. You can use either EclipseLink/JPA technology with annotations or Ibatis 2.3.0 with configuration in XML files. Example projects are included and described elsewhere on this blog. The compiled code can also be installed from the update site

Bug 184532 RESOLVED: Industrial Connector moved to Eclipselabs

History

The Mylyn project has grown tremendously and taken on new directions since bug 184532 [connector] Generic SQL connector was opened in 2007. Widescale adoption and praise for Mylyn and the foundation of Tasktop was followed by the release of many commercial connectors.
As Mik has pointed out elsewhere, the Mylyn dev team simply does not have the resources to maintain the many contributions offered, one of which was this SQL connector.
This is the only way for the Mylyn project to stay in innovation mode, stay out of maintenance mode! We understand and respect that decision as we too will benefit from that innovation.

The Industrial SQL Connector for Mylyn does have an active though not very visible user community as it is the basis of the Mylyn connector of the commercial software change management product of Remain Software.

As can be seen from the entries in bug 184532 mentioned above also some people have used the Industrial SQL Connector to create connections to their in-house SQL based systems.

Move to Eclipselabs.org

For this reason we have decided to take the opportunity to join the newly formed Eclipselabs.org with code hosting at Google code, and no longer actively pursue becoming part of mylyn core. There we will have our own dedicated Wiki, issue tracker, SVN repository and update site, so we no longer have to free ride on the eclipse.org infrastucture.
As a consequence the projects and packages will be renamed to get rid of the org.eclipse.mylyn.* prefix and revert back to com.industrialtsi.mylyn.*, but will keep the EPL as license.

The new location for the project and source code is here:
http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/industrial-mylyn/

We will be updating the Wiki and blog in the days to come. We fixed some more bugs, upgraded the version to 0.9.6 and offer a preliminary update site here:
http://svn.codespot.com/a/eclipselabs.org/industrial-mylyn/trunk/com.industrialtsi.mylyn.site/

We are also present in the Eclipse Marketplace to be ready for Helios release here:
http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/industrial-sql-connector-mylyn.

The above is an edited and more elaborate version of the closing comment on bug 184532.