The Eclipse Foundation raises the issue of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) as a strategic issue and it creates a new top-level project on application lifecycle tools. As a central purpose is the world established in the Eclipse Mylyn Eclipse view, a project for collaborative software development, which manage tasks, and is dedicated to providing tools and services for ALM.

It is now home to the theme of touching areas such as tasks, context, software configuration and build-management, review and documentation be. Mik Kersten, founder of the Mylyn project has, in its announcement about the Mylyn goals down, the first, on the development of frameworks and interfaces for the task and application lifecycle management, and other tools on the Task-Focused programming within Eclipse target. Finally, we will reference implementations for free, in integrating Eclipse and standards such as OSLC Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration) supporting ALM tools do

With the decision of the open-source organization being Mylyn a further appreciation after project managers earlier in the year announced was that the Eclipse project should be extended to sub. Other top-level projects, the Eclipse Foundation, among other things affect the areas of Enterprise Java, run time, service-oriented architectures (SOAs), mobile, voice IDEs and Modeling. Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, recognizes Mylyn as exemplary Eclipse project.