Develop Atlassian plugin on a PC that has not internet connection - is it possible at all?

[Daisuke Niwa]

Hi there,

One of our customers is a major investment bank, and they have very rigid security measure.

As a result, their client PCs for JIRA plugin development are not allowed to access internet.

We know the plugin SDK connects to Atlassian's repository upon plugin build in order to obtain necessary libraries.

Is it possible to do this offline? For example, is it realistic to copy all the repository to local machine beforehand?

We appreciate your help!

Regards,

Daisuke Niwa

[Colin Goudie · Accepted solution]

It's possible but you would have to know before hand what maven artifacts you would think you'd need. Once maven has downloaded the files it needs to build your plugin it caches them locally. You can then set maven to offline mode ( -o option ) and it won't continue checking online.

However, if you find you need some additional jar file, then you'd have to be able to connect again. You say they are a major investment back, so maybe they have an internal maven repository? If so, just use that and you never need to connect to 'the internet'.

[Daisuke Niwa]

Colin,

Thanks for your advice.

I thought we need to connect to Atlassian's repository as well in order to build a plugin. Is it correct?

[Radu Dumitriu]

Yes.

You simply need to setup a maven server within the organization and upload all your jars there. That if you trust the jars from Atlassian and open-source community :) You still need to trust something, in the end.

However, since it is a development team would be just better to separate the networks (yeah!) and leave the poor guys doing development there to access the internet (or at least part of it). For sure, I would refuse a job where I would have no connection to internet whatsoever ... Just dissociate the operational aspects from the development ones ...