JIRA Development Cookbook - Third Edition

Setting up the development environment

Now that we know what a plugin is, let's aim at writing one! The first step in writing a JIRA plugin is to set up your environment, if you haven't done that already. In this recipe, we will see how to set up a local environment.

To make plugin development easier, Atlassian provides the Atlassian plugin software development kit (SDK). It comes along with Maven and a preconfigured settings.xml to make things easier.

The Atlassian Plugin SDK can be used to develop plugins for other Atlassian products, including Confluence, Crowd, and so on, but we are concentrating on JIRA.

Getting ready

The following are the prerequisites for running the Atlassian Plugin SDK:

Note

At the time of writing this recipe, the latest version ...