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Get (task) focused with the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse

Jesse Gibbs talks about eclipse June 24, 2009 12:00 PM

Today is a big day for the Eclipse community with the release of "Galileo", also known as Eclipse 3.5.

Atlassian is joining the fun with the latest version of our Atlassian Connector for Eclipse.

This Eclipse plugin allows developers to quickly access JIRA issues, Bamboo builds, Crucible code reviews and FishEye SCM insights without context-switching from the IDE. The Atlassian Connector supports the newly-released Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) as well as earlier 3.3 and 3.4 versions.

The latest release of the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse was created in partnership with Tasktop Technologies, creators of the widely adopted task-focused Mylyn interface for Eclipse. Developers working on JIRA issues and Crucible code reviews are far more productive thanks to Mylyn's innovative context-based presentation which shows them only the source code files and information needed for the task at hand.

The Atlassian Connector for Eclipse allows developers to easily and efficiently:

Configure JIRA, Bamboo, Crucible and FishEye servers as Mylyn task repositories
Receive notifications of changes to JIRA issues, Crucible code reviews, and Bamboo build status directly in Eclipse, eliminating context switches
Create, update, and manage JIRA issues throughout their life cycle.
Launch Bamboo builds and create JIRA issues to address failed Bamboo builds
Create and conduct Crucible code reviews right in the source code editor
Access FishEye SCM insights at the project, package, file, or line of code level

Please note: some users have encountered errors when installing the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse. This is due to a problem with the distribution of Eclipse 3.5 to the various mirroring sites.

If you encounter one of the following error messages during installation, please try the following troubleshooting steps. If these solutions do not fix the error, we recommend attempting to re-download the 3.5 distribution from a different mirror site.

"Cannot find a solution satisfying the following requirements"
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"Error while collecting items to be installed"
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Check out the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse in action (2:36):

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6 Comment(s)

I like the idea of Atlassian providing the connector to its tools, and like the new Mylyn Connector Discovery, but I get errors every time I try to install the connector in a brand new install of Eclipse Galileo (Reporting Package). The errors are:

An error occurred while collecting items to be installed
session context was:(profile=epp.package.reporting, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.engine.phases.Collect, operand=, action=).
No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.mylyn.commons.soap,3.2.0.v20090617-0100-e3x
No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.mylyn.jira.core,3.2.0.v20090617-0100-e3x
No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.mylyn.jira.ui,3.2.0.v20090617-0100-e3x
No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.mylyn.jira_feature,3.2.0.v20090617-0100-e3x

I'd be happy to download it the "old fashioned" way through the Eclipse Update mechanism, but I can only find url's for e3.3 and 3.4.
--keenan

By keenan at June 25, 2009 10:46 AM

The old mylyn extras package is now out of date, you need to use the "install connectors" button from the add task repository dialog.

http://twitter.com/tasktop/status/2299207787

By Andrew Herron at June 25, 2009 12:00 PM

Also note that I could only get the install connectors dialog to work on a completely fresh workspace. My old one, with update URLs for the pre-3.5 JIRA connector, completely failed trying to find 'org.eclipse.mylyn.jira_feature.feature.group [3.2.0.I20090529,3.3.0)'

By Andrew Herron at June 25, 2009 12:57 PM

Hallo all

The Installation Guide may help here. As well as the installation steps, it gives some work-arounds for common installation problems. It also has links to the relevant issues in the issue tracker.

Cheers, Sarah

By Sarah Maddox at June 25, 2009 1:45 PM

Downloaded offical release of Eclipse Galileo yesterday and tried both ways to install the Connector but everytime i get the following error:

Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
Software being installed: Atlassian Connector for Eclipse (recommended) 1.1.0.v20090624 (com.atlassian.connector.eclipse.feature.group 1.1.0.v20090624)
Missing requirement: Atlassian Connector for Eclipse (recommended) 1.1.0.v20090624 (com.atlassian.connector.eclipse.feature.group 1.1.0.v20090624) requires 'org.eclipse.mylyn.jira_feature.feature.group [3.2.0.I20090529,3.3.0)' but it could not be found

By Ercan Oezkan at June 26, 2009 6:15 AM

Guys,

The problem you were experiencing were due to increased traffic and Eclipse mirrors problems related to Galileo launch. JIRA Connector (included in Atlassian Connector for Eclipse) is hosted by Eclipse update sites which in most of the cases mirrors were down or did not yet pick up the new release. Apologies for this.
To alleviate the problem we quickly prepared our own update site mirroring most of dependencies. The site is available at the same place: http://update.atlassian.com/atlassian-eclipse-plugin/e3.4 Now you should be able to install Connector even if Eclipse mirrors are down. Still we were not able to include all optional dependencies (e.g. on Subclipse) due to potential licensing issues.

By Wojciech Seliga at June 26, 2009 7:27 PM