Which version of active objects should I write on pom.xml?

[nsacerdote]

If you are developing a plugin for Jira 5+ (5.0, 5.1, 5.2, etc) which version of active objects should you write on your pom.xml?

At the moment my pom.xml looks like:

<dependency>
	<groupId>com.atlassian.activeobjects</groupId>
	<artifactId>activeobjects-plugin</artifactId>
	<version>0.18.4</version>
	<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

What happens if someone install my plugin and they have Jira 5.2 (AO 0.19.16?) ? Will it work because 0.19.16 > 0.18.4?

I found this relevant documentation about this topic, but couldn't find version for Jira 5+:

https://developer.atlassian.com/display/AO/Adding+the+maven+dependency

https://developer.atlassian.com/display/AO/AO+0.18.x+Upgrade+Guide

[Andy Brook [Plugin People] · Accepted solution]

Yep, you cannot just set it and forget it, something may change, you have to monitor the dependencies in the target product and update your application markup to 'keep up' with the product. A later version is not guaranteed to work, after all, it changed, you have to get it and check it.

This is why plugins have compatibility matrixes, as developers say 'you need JIRA 5.2+ for this plugin, because of an updated library'. Of course, the fun starts when you dont do that, because youre testing shows its 'all good' despite the version change. A dangerous game but certainly possible.

BTW, I too have been using 0.19.7 for all 5.0+ development...

[nsacerdote]

Ok, I'll use 0.19.7 for my plugin and check with new versions to see if works, thanks!

[Thomas Schroeder]

A grep / find in my maven repository revealed the following versions:

| Confluence | AO |

| 4.3.6 | 0.19.12 |

| 5.2.5 | 0.22.2 |

| 5.3.2 | 0.24-m4-confluence |

[sm shamim]

I am using 0.19.7 for 5.0 and it should work with all 5+ version.

[Thomas Schroeder]

Is there somewhere now a kind of version matrix? I am still struggling to find the correct version of AO which will work with my version of confluence (5.2.5).

[Mizan]

I have a plugin with depency as below and it works well on 5.1.8

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.atlassian.activeobjects</groupId>
  <artifactId>activeobjects-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>0.9.6</version>
  <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

[Andy Brook [Plugin People]]

It may work, but its not what 5.1.8 ships with, that would be 0.19.7.