Creating the helloworld plugin

Now, we are ready to create our first add-on in JIRA, which will introduce new features to our instance. Any JIRA add-on contains a lot of files, and it has to follow a directory structure; the Atlassian SDK provides a command-line tool called atlas-create-jira-plugin to create a plugin.

If your existing JIRA is already running in cmd, then stop it by pressing on Ctrl + C and perform these steps:

1. In cmd, make sure that you are in the C:\atlastutorial directory.

2. Enter the following command and press Enter:

   atlas-create-jira-plugin
   

3. This command will respond and ask you to provide certain inputs. Use the values mentioned in the following table:

   Define value for groupId	com.atlassian.tutorial	Used to identify project uniquely
   Define value for artifactId	helloworld	An artifact is a file, usually a JAR, that gets deployed
   Define value for version	1.0-Version	Used for distributing the plugin
   Define value for package	com.atlassian.tutorial.helloworld...