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.