[mylyn-integrators] Mylyn API usage from a headless application

[Markus Tiede <Markus.Tiede@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

we, the Jubula team, are currently working on a better integration with 
various ALM tools using the Mylyn API.

We aim for a connector and repository neutral solution to report test 
results (via auto-generated comments) to arbitrary tasks for any task 
repository that is supported by Mylyn. This is so far looking pretty 
good using the Mylyn Tasks / Core API from within a standalone RCP UI 
application.Therefore we're using the "TasksUiUtil" and "TasksUi" API to 
access the global repository manager.

Since we would also like to report those information from our 
commandline tools (e.g. our headless tool for test execution "testexec") 
during a nightly CI run we are currently searching for a solution to 
gain access to e.g. all configured repositories for a given workspace 
from within a headless context (an RCP application without an active 
workbench; the platform itself is running).

I've already found some information [1] discussing this topic but as we 
would like to implement a connector independent solution this is 
currently too specific for our needs.

So my questions are:
 - Are there already any Mylyn services / platform mechanism present 
(which I've missed so far) to achieve this?
 - If not, are there any plans to move the code to retrieve the 
repository manager so that it would also be usable from a non-UI context?

Thanks in advance for any comments and with best regards,
MarkusT

[1] 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Mylyn/Integrator_Reference#Headless_and_standalone_use

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