Integrating JIRA and external SOAP web Services using e.g. Axis2 as SOAP client.

[Andrew Novak]

Hi Team,

We have been using JIRA for 3 years and currently we are working on custom plugin development where we have to use external SOAP web Services.

We are going to use SOAP web Services to import data into JIRA by implementing SOAP clients in our JIRA plugin (by using third party lib e.g. apache Axis2). This plugin will perform communication with WebServices, get data, and then plugin's logic will parse data and create or update specific issues in JIRA.

But we found that Atlassian won't support SOAP API starting from JIRA 7.0. Do you think this changes may have negative impact on our solution? We just would like to clarify whether we have to use REST instead SOAP.

Regards, SoftServe

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Atlassian won't be supporting SOAP requests coming into JIRA but you are free to call external systems using SOAP or REST.

The deprecation is for JIRA remote APIs. You can use axis or anything else you want in the plugins to invoke thrid party systems.

[Andrew Novak]

Thank you very much for quick answer.
Cheers.