Creating the project tab panel using fragments

We have seen how to create a new project tab panel in the previous recipe. While this works in most cases, sometimes we would like to create the nice fragmented view in JIRA 4.1+. Here, each project tab panel has a list of fragments organized in two columns. We can create the fragments and order them so that they appear in a formatted way on clicking the new tab panel.

In this recipe, we will see how to create the project tab panel using fragments. Before we start, there are a couple of things worth mentioning:

• We need to use the same package structure, com.atlassian.jira.plugin.projectpanel.impl, to create the fragment class, as we need to override the protected methods in it

• The components used in creating the fragments are not available in the OSGI v2.0 plugins, and hence we have to create a v1.0 plugin

How to do it...

Following are the steps to create a fragmented project tab panel:

1. Add the project tab panel module in atlassian-plugin.xml.

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