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h1. Eclipse meets Jira: a HowTo

Motivation

  • This short

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  • introduction aims at providing some practical advice for

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  • integrating these two powerfull tools is just one more step closer to the "single point of development" approach.

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  • BTW: There is a connector for Microsoft

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  • Visual Studio,

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What components will you

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need?

  • First of all: Eclipse with Mylyn.

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  • We suggest to use the latest version of Eclipse

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  • At the time of writing: Helios (

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  • 3.6). Helios

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  • includes a current Mylin version (3.4)

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  • . 
  • Of course,

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  • a JIRA server is required. At the time of writing version 4.1

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  • was used. To communicate from Eclipse to

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  • JIRA and vice

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  • versa

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  • the

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  • JIRA Plugin is

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  • required.

Where to get it?

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    • code for the connector is published as open source. 
    • To get an overview it is the best way to create a new project in

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    • Eclipse an connect to the

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    • subversion repository.

Configuration

To start working with Jira JIRA inside Eclipse , some configuration work has to be doneeffected.

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JIRA Server

  • This

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  • JIRA server

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  • has to enable the xml-rpc functionality. Normaly, this is a task that

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JIRA Plugin

  • The

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  • JIRA Plugin has to be imported in every

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  • Eclipse installation

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  • folder

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  • , e.g. /eclipse/plugins

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  • For SOS

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  • the URL of the

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  •  and the configuration as follows:
    • It is required, to set the proxy proxy.sos

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    • to port 3128 to get in contact with

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    • JIRA.
    • The (not required) Label should be "SOS Jira".
    • The userid and password

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    • are the same as

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    • for user access to JIRA.

Working with

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JIRA