In this chapter, you learned how to develop add-ons for JIRA. If you already have a working knowledge of Java, and have worked on Maven, then you have a good opportunity to learn add-on development for JIRA and other Atlassian tools. Whenever the existing functionality is not sufficient to serve your needs, you can always develop add-ons for JIRA. These add-ons are developed in the Java language and also utilize Apache Maven for build automation. In this chapter, we discussed how to set up the development environment and the Eclipse IDE. We also created a skeleton plugin project.
In the next chapter, you will learn how to migrate data to JIRA using the CSV file. JIRA provides migration tools for Bugzilla, Mantis, and a few other issue trackers, but if your existing issue tracker has a lot of customizations, then it's always preferable to migrate the data using CSV import, which is quite powerful. With careful planning, it can import complex data into JIRA. We will also take a look...