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JIRA Development Cookbook

You're reading from   JIRA Development Cookbook Develop and customize plugins, program workflows, work on custom fields, master JQL functions, and more to effectively customize, manage, and extend JIRA

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849681803
Length 476 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jobin Kuruvilla Jobin Kuruvilla
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

JIRA Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Plugin Development Process FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding Plugin Framework 3. Working with Custom Fields 4. Programming Workflows 5. Gadgets and Reporting in JIRA 6. The Power of JIRA Searching 7. Programming Issues 8. Customizing the UI 9. Remote Access to JIRA 10. Dealing with a Database 11. Useful Recipes Index

Introduction


We have already seen in Chapter 2, Understanding Plugin Framework, that JIRA uses the Ofbiz suite's Entity Engine module to deal with database operations.

OfBiz stands for Open For Business and the OfBiz Entity Engine is a set of tools and patterns used to model and manage entity-specific data.

As per the definition from the standard entity-relationship modeling concepts of RDBMS, an entity is a piece of data defined by a set of fields and a set of relations to other entities.

In JIRA, these entities are defined in two files, entitygroup.xml and entitymodel.xml, both residing in the WEB-INF/classes/entitydefs folder. entitygroup.xml stores the entity names for a previously-defined group. If you look at the file, you will see that, the default group in JIRA is named default; you will find the same defined in the entity configuration file, which we will see in a moment. entitymodel.xml holds the actual entity definitions, details of which we will see in the recipes.

The entity configuration...

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