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!
Note
Please note that Atlassian does not support building JIRA from source and it should be done only when there is a business-critical requirement that cannot be fulfilled by a third-party or custom add-on.
Getting ready
Following are some of the pre-requisites prior to building JIRA from source:
- A valid JIRA license to get access to the source code
- An environment with JDK 1.7 or higher
Note
Apache Maven is required to build the JIRA Source, but the JIRA source code (7.x+) now includes the Maven distribution as well. If you would like ...
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