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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

Building JIRA from source


One of the best things about JIRA, if you have a valid license, is that you get to see the source code. To see it, modify it, break it... err modify it because you have the license to do it!

Getting ready

Following are some of the pre-requisites prior to building JIRA from the source.

  • A valid JIRA license to get access to the source code.

  • An environment with JDK 1.5 or higher for JIRA 4.2 and lower versions. JDK 1.6 or higher for JIRA 4.3+.

  • You will need both Maven1 and Maven2 if you are building versions prior to JIRA 4.3. Download Maven version 1.0.x and 2.1.x from http://maven.apache.org. JIRA 4.3+ needs only Maven 2.1.0.

Note

You need both Maven1 and Maven2 for versions prior to JIRA 4.3 because Maven1 is required to build the JIRA source and Maven2 is required to build plugins for JIRA. JIRA has bundled plugins thatneed to be built along with JIRA and so Maven2 is also a must.

Maven 2.1.0+ is required for the plugin development process.

How to do it...

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