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I thought I would attack this topic next given its growing popularity in the forums !. So why is this so popular? The context is pretty much given in the earlier tutorial for creating a SOAP client. There are at least a couple of ways for extending the given, out of the box SOAP capabilities of JIRA. Those will be writing an RPC plugin (thanks to JIRA for giving that option) and re-building the RPC plugin.
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Creating an Issue in JIRA from other applications, like custom built UI for instance, is a common behaviour. It is pretty easy because JIRA provides us with the SOAP or XML/RPC interfaces. SOAP is recommended as it supports more operations which you might be using along with the Create!
Creating a JIRA SOAP client is pretty easy and is detailed in my previous tutorial. I am going to assume that you have the client created and a sample test done to ensure you are connected to your JIRA.
It is very obvious! If you are reading this, you must be knowing how important it is to have an external interface for JIRA and how Atlassian helps by providing a SOAP interface. In an enterprise, or even in small companies for that matter, we often end up integrating JIRA with multiple systems. Creating a SOAP Client is a recommended and easy solution in such scenarios.
In fact, JIRA enables remote access through both SOAP and XML-RPC. SOAP is recommended because it covers more operations! |
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