Writing a Java XML-RPC client

We have already seen how to create a REST client or SOAP client and use it to connect to JIRA from an external third-party application. In this recipe, we will see how to invoke an XML-RPC method from a client application written in Java.

The Javadocs for the XML-RPC client can be found at http://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/rpc-jira-plugin/latest/com/atlassian/jira/rpc/xmlrpc/XmlRpcService.html.

Getting ready

Make sure the Accept remote API Calls option is turned ON in JIRA under Administration | System | General Configuration.

How to do it...

Let's try to retrieve the list of projects using the XML-RPC service deployed within JIRA. The following are the steps:

1. Create a Maven 2 project and add the dependency for Apache2 xml-rpc libraries.

   <dependency>
     <groupId>xmlrpc</groupId>
     <artifactId>xmlrpc</artifactId>
     <version>2.0</version>
   </dependency>

   Note that the version of the xml-rpc libraries we have...