Project properties of JIRA

Currently, I am doing plugin development of JIRA. A request of my friend in hongkong. The functionality of this plugin is to clone the existing project with all the issues and the configuration of the project. Thus, this project will be akin of template to create 'real' project.

One interesting part of developing this plugin is cloning the issue type scheme. As we know that JIRA has issue type scheme to differentiate the type of the issue. JIRA divides the issue type scheme to be global and not global. By default, the global issue type scheme is Default Issue Type Scheme. But, strange thing is happening when I try to fetch the entity of Default Issue Type Scheme. When I use the following line to get the entity:

FieldConfigScheme fieldConfigScheme = issueTypeSchemeManager.getConfigScheme(existingProject);

and the above result is checked against the isGlobal() method of object fieldConfigScheme. The result is false which I think, it is supposed to be true. However, what i did to solve the problem is to check the object against the default fieldConfigScheme and it works.

Building and Running shindig source

I ve just tried to build the source of Shindig and running it on eclipse. Yes, as what most people expected, there will be problem face during this process.

First time I was experiencing the problem of not able to build the source of shindig. I saw the log of the process, it fails on the test code. Thus, I just skipped it and running the maven command mvn is success.

The problem is not stopped on this, if you try to run it on jetty using the following command (as what the doco said)

mvn clean install jetty:run -DrunType=full -Djetty.port=80

It will complain as in the following:

[INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jetty-plugin' does not exist o r no valid version could be found
Thus, you need to run a complete maven command as in the following

mvn clean install org.mortbay.jetty:maven-jetty-plugin:6.0.1:run -DrunType=full -Djetty.port=8091

Even more, it will complain on the non-availability of the webapp directory as in the following:

[INFO] web.xml does not exist at location F:\software\shindig\src\main\webapp\WE B-INF\web.xml
Therefore, you need to run it on /java/server. Run the above complete maven command, you should get your jetty running the shindig. You can access the sample of shindig using the address:

http://localhost:8091/gadgets/ifr?url=http://www.labpixies.com/campaigns/todo/todo.xml

You should see the following image on your browser.

SSO (Single Sign On) for JIRA and Confluence

I just developed an SSO application which is built on mule. This SSO can be plugged in the application which is using seraph as its security framework. The 2 greats Atlassian's product which are Confluence and JIRA uses seraph, as its security framework. Thus, this SSO can be applied to these products.

Basically, the idea of this SSO are:

• to use a middleware to store a data on regard of user's authentication, The middleware that I use is mule as it is free and open source. So, people can use it.
  

• to use the existing user framework which is used in seraph to perform authentication. Seraph, by default, uses osuser as its user management framework. However, as we can customize and plug any authenticator to seraph. This would make the authentication is more dynamic to perform. The authentication definitely needs user management framework to perform its task by comparing the credential in database against the input that use provides.

As of now, i still need to clean the code and doing some automation to ease the installation.