Java API insteed REST API

[Konstantin Morozov]

Hello! I need to create client with additional features. I heard about JIRA REST API and this is cool. And I find page "Java API Policy for Jira". So, can I use some Java API or SDK for create my client (I need to work with user data: projects, issues, etc.)? If yes, can you give me a link on full documentation? I can't find it.

Thank you very much.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Ok, if you're writing a new client for JIRA, then you can pretty much forget the Java API.  You will want your client code to call JIRA's REST API to get data like projects and issues, and also update them.

Your client is completely external to JIRA, so you don't need any Java API or SDK from Atlassian to build it with - you can use any language and structure you want, as long as it can make the REST calls to JIRA.

To get started with REST, have a look at https://developer.atlassian.com/jiradev/jira-apis/jira-rest-apis