Table Of ContentJIRA 5.x Development
Cookbook
This book is your one-stop resource for mastering JIRA
extensions and customizations
Jobin Kuruvilla
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook
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Credits
Author Project Coordinator
Jobin Kuruvilla Hardik Patel
Reviewers Proofreaders
Felix Martineau Maria Gould
Mizan Ali Sayed Paul Hindle
Aaron Nash
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About the Author
Jobin Kuruvilla is an Atlassian Consultant with experience in customizing JIRA and writing
JIRA plugins for various customers. He is currently working with Go2Group as an Atlassian
platinum expert, and is involved in managing Atlassian products for big enterprises as well as
small starter license installations.
Jobin is the author of JIRA Development Cookbook, Packt Publishing, released in 2011,
which is a well-received book in the JIRA community. He also runs a website named
J-Tricks (http://www.j-tricks.com), using which he shares numerous tutorials
to help the developer community, who he believes have contributed immensely to his
personal development. It is indeed those tutorials that sowed the first seeds of JIRA
Development Cookbook.
Jobin started his career as a Java/J2EE developer in one of the biggest IT companies in
India. After spending his initial years in the SOA world, he got hooked into this amazing
product called JIRA, which he came across during the evaluation of a number of third-party
tools. Soon, Jobin realized the power of JIRA, and pledged to spread the word. He has been
doing it ever since, and he reckons there is a long way to go!
Acknowledgement
No book is the product of just the author; he just happens to be the one with his name on
the cover.
A number of people contributed to the success of this book, and it would take more space
than I have to thank each one individually.
First of all, thanks to the Almighty God for helping me to sail through the difficulties in this
short life and for making my life as wonderful as it is now.
The next biggest thanks goes to Project Coordinator, Hardik Patel, and Lead Technical Editor,
Sruthi Kutty, both of whom went through the pain of making me write another book. Also,
thanks to the entire Packt Publishing team for working so diligently to help bring out another
high quality product.
It is amazing to work with a team of talented developers and technical geeks. Thank you
STORM team, PD&B team, and RAMP team. Your encouragement and support were invaluable
to me; you guys rock!
I must also thank the talented JIRA community who are instrumental in helping each other,
sharing solutions, being active in the forums, running user groups, and what not? I am just
one of the many who have benefited.
Before I wind up, thank you Atlassian for giving us JIRA and a set of other wonderful products.
You don't realize how much you are making our lives easier!
Last, but not the least, a big thanks to all at Go2group for the support extended in writing this
book and believing in my capabilities.
About the Reviewers
Felix Martineau runs the Atlassian practice at TechSolCom (http://www.techsolcom.ca)
and has been working as a professional JIRA consultant since 2008. Having started with JIRA
in 2007, over the years he has worked with the entire Atlassian portfolio. Felix has a rare
blend of technical expertise, people skills, and business acumen. For Felix, the people are
always more important than the tools.
I want to thank the people at Packt Publishing for giving me this opportunity
to review the book. Jobin Kuruvilla is one of the top people in the JIRA
community, so it's an honor for me to be involved.
I would also like to thank my girlfriend Genevieve for her continuous
support, as well as Paul Gamache and Jean Perron at TechSolCom,
to whom I owe a lot professionally.
Mizan Ali Sayed is a Master in Computer Science from Pune university, India. Mizan
currently works as an Atlassian tools specialist and has experience with implementing,
customizing, and supporting large scale enterprise JIRA. He is active within the Atlassian
forum "Answers" and has published open source add-ons on the Atlassian Marketplace.
I would like to thank my parents and friends for their continuous support
and encouragement.
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This book is dedicated to Sarah, Anna, Anu, Juby, Alice, and Kuruvilla. Also, my
friends from TKM and JNV Kottayam.
This book would not have been possible without you, one way or the other!
A big thank you from the bottom of my heart. I have nothing to give back, but my
love and prayers.
