Creating a SOAP client

SOAP was the preferred mode of remote access in JIRA prior to JIRA5. SOAP still has the most methods compared to REST or XML/RPC and is probably used the most in the plugins that we find around us. In this recipe, we will start with the basics and see how we can write a simple SOAP client.

Getting ready

Install Maven 2 and configure a Java development environment. Make sure the RPC plugin is enabled in JIRA and the Accept remote API calls option is turned ON at Administration | System | General Configuration.

How to do it...

The following are the steps to create a JIRA SOAP client:

1. Download the latest demo SOAP client distribution from the Atlassian public repository available at https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/svn/JRPC/tags/. This contains a Maven 2 project configured to use Apache Axis, and a sample Java SOAP client, which creates test issues at http://jira.atlassian.com.

2. Modify the jira.soapclient.jiraurl property in the pom.xml file to point to your JIRA instance...