Writing a Java XML-RPC client

In the previous recipes, we saw how to create a SOAP client and use it to connect to JIRA from an external third-party application. We have also seen ways of exposing new methods in JIRA through SOAP and XML-RPC interfaces. In this recipe, we will see how to invoke an XML-RPC method from a client application written in Java.

The Javadocs for 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 Accept Remote API Calls option is turned ON in JIRA under Administration | Global Settings.

How to do it...

Let us try to retrieve the list of projects using XML-RPC service deployed within JIRA. Following are the steps:

1. Create a Maven2 project and add the dependency for Apache2 xml-rpc libraries.

   <dependency>
     <groupId>xmlrpc</groupId>
     <artifactId>xmlrpc</artifactId>
     <version>1.1</version>
   </dependency...