Plugin Jar, plus UI?

[Dean Gereaux]

I'm looking to develop a plugin for JIRA. I've downloaded and played with the SDK, so far so good. My question is: The result of developing and builidng a plugin is a Java Jar file. From this Jar file I then have to wrap a UI (either Web Based or other) around it. Is this correct? Did I understand the SDK docs correctly? Is there a way for the plugin to direclty interace with the UI that's part of JIRA?

Thanks,

Dean Gereaux

[Andrew Frayling]

Hi Dean,

Depending on the type of plugin you're developing you can hook your plugin into the existing UI using Web Fragments - https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/Web+Fragments

Have a look at some of the Plugin Tutorials - https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/JIRA+Plugin+Tutorials - particularly https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/Plugin+Tutorial+-+Adding+Content+to+the+JIRA+View+Issue+Page , https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/Plugin+Tutorial+-+Adding+your+own+Menu+Items+to+JIRA and https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/Displaying+Content+in+a+Dialog+in+JIRA for examples that hook into the existin UI.

Hope that helps?

Andrew.