Tasktop

I just left the Rational Software Conference (RSC) 2009 and arrived at JavaOne. I joined Steve Speicher at RSC to present the results of the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) initiative, in which we contributed to the 1.0 specification of a REST-based API for change management. We’ll post more on Tasktop’s participation in OSLC soon.

Our involvement in OSLC started with the tremendous amount of interest in a Mylyn connector for IBM Rational’s ClearQuest. The corresponding bug has been in the top 10 most voted enhancement requests on Eclipse for a couple of years, and is now ranked 4th. We decided with IBM that the best way to approach this was to collaborate on the OSLC initiative, which is now providing a generic way to access tasks in repositories that provide an OSLC web service API. We are leveraging OSLC API to build the soon-to-be-released ClearQuest connector.

If you’re interested in learning more about how OSLC will impact Tasktop and Mylyn users, check out the developerWorks podcast with myself, Carl Zetie and Steve Abrams.

IBM developerWorks: Abrams, Zetie, and Kersten on first fruits from the OSLC Also available in MP3 format

	Now it’s time for the craziness that is JavaOne. I just had a quick chat with Michael Ernst who is presenting some very interesting work on Preventing Bugs with Pluggable Type Checking which I was very glad to hear is coming in Java 7. After that it will be good to hear from Rod Johnson on the Spring Framework 3.0: New and Notable.

My talk on what’s new in Mylyn and the task-focused interface will be on Thursday:

	Mylyn: Redefining the “I” of the IDE Thursday, June 4, 2009 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Hall E 133