Connecting Mantis to Mylyn

By Kaniabi on September 26, 2007 3:14 PM | | Comments (0)

Mylyn is a excellent tool for development, but without the connection with the bug-tracking system it has limited value. This article explore some of the problems and solutions found while connecting mantis and mylyn.

Mantis version

We are waiting for a long time for a final release of mantis 1.1.X branch. Tired of waiting we decided to try the current alpha version (a4). The good news is that this version includes MantisConnect which is the SOAP server for mantis.

We created a parallel mantis repository, called mantis_test to perform the tests without having to touch the production server.

Cannot redeclare class soapclient

This problem appears when trying to test the "mantisconnect". We had to change the source code in order to solve this as described here:http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/view/cs_msg/56663

Installing Mylyn-Mantis

Mylyn Mantis connection is not default and must be installed in Eclipse. The project page is:

http://mylyn-mantis.sourceforge.net

The eclipse update site is the following:

http://mylyn-mantis.sourceforge.net/eclipse/update/

Configuring Mylyn (in Eclipse)

TODO

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