JIRA system plugins
In this section, we will see a brief overview of the JIRA system plugins.
A lot of JIRA's functionality is written in the form of plugins. This not only showcases what we can achieve using plugins, but also helps us, as developers, to understand how the various pieces fit together.
If it is the atlassian-plugin.xml file that describes the plugin functionalities, JIRA maintains the information in *.xml files placed under WEB-INF/classes. You will also find the related classes in the exploded folders under WEB-INF/classes.
Let us have a quick look at the various system plugin XMLs that can be found in WEB-INF/classes and the functionality they support:
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System content link resolvers: Resolves parsed content links into link objects.
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JIRA system custom fields: All the... |
