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JIRA Development Cookbook

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JIRA Development Cookbook

Overview of this book

JIRA provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development.This book is your one-stop resource to master JIRA extension and customization. You will learn how to create your own JIRA plugins, customize the look and feel of your JIRA UI, work with Workflows, Issues, Custom Fields, and much more.The book starts with recipes on simplifying the Plugin development process followed by a complete chapter dedicated to the Plugin Framework to master Plugins in JIRA.Then we will move on to writing custom field plugins to create new field types or custom searchers. We then learn how to program and customize Workflows to transform JIRA into a user-friendly system. Reporting support in an application like JIRA is inevitable! With so much data spanning across different projects, issues, etc and a lot of project planning done on it, we will cover how to work on reports and gadgets to get customized data according to our needs. We will then look at customizing the various searching aspects of JIRA such as JQL, searching in plugins, managing filters, and so on. Then the book steers towards programming Issues, i.e. creating/editing/deleting issues, creating new issue operations, managing the various other operations available on issues via the JIRA APIs etc. In the latter half of the book, you will learn how to customize JIRA by adding new tabs, menus, and web items, communicate with JIRA via the REST, SOAP or XML/RPC interfaces, and work with the JIRA database.The book ends with a chapter on useful and general JIRA recipes.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
JIRA Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


One of the good things about JIRA is that it has a simple but powerful user interface. A lot has changed between 3.13.x and 4.1.x in terms of the user interface, and it still continues to be one that keeps the users happy and plugin developers interested.

While the existing JIRA interface works for many people, there are cases where we need to modify bits and pieces of it, add new UI elements, remove some, and so on.

Normally, when we think of modifying a web application's user interface, the first thought that comes to our mind is to go and modify the JSPs, VMs, and many others involved. While it is true, in some cases, for JIRA as well, a lot of the user-interface changes can be introduced without even touching the JIRA code. JIRA helps us to do that with the help of a number of UI-related plugin modules.

In this chapter, we will be looking at various recipes for enhancing the JIRA UI with the various plugin modules available, and also, in some cases, by modifying the JSPs or...