JIRA Eclipse Dashboard
| Name | JIRA Eclipse Dashboard |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.9.0 |
| Product Versions | JIRA 3.1.1+ |
| Author(s) | brockj@tigris.org |
| Homepage | http://jira-dashboard.tigris.org/ |
| Price | free! |
| License | Eclipse Public License |
| Issue Tracker | http://developer.atlassian.com/jira |
| Download | Use Eclipse Update Mechanism |
| Download Source | http://jira-dashboard.tigris.org/source/browse/jira-dashboard/ |
Description
The JIRA Eclipse Dashboard has been integrated into the Mylyn JIRA Connector.
Jira Dashboard is a set of Eclipse plugins that provide access to a remote Jira installation from inside the IDE.
Although the main focus of this project is the creation of Eclipse plugins it is possible to re-use the core services to create plugins for other IDEs.
Check out the screenshots for more detail.
Features
- Execute named queries (global filters)
- Access to most of the pre-defined filters available in Web based Jira Dashboard
- Support for the standard issue workflow (start, stop, resolve, reopen, close)
- View issue details in a non modal editor (Jira 3.4+ only)
- Support multiple Jira installations in the same workspace
- Client defined queries
- Quick Search
- Screenshot editor with annotation support (paste from clipboard only available on win32 platforms)
- Create an issue
- Overdue issues are hilighted in the navigator
- Integration with Mylar

There are many more features that are planned for implementation. See the roadmap for details.
Installation
Installation is via the Eclipse update mechanism. Our update site is located here.
Requirements
- Jira 3.1.1 or higher
- Jira RPC plugin 1.4.3 or higher
- Eclipse 3.1 or higher

Comments (28)
Oct 25, 2005
Chanan J Braunstein says:
Looks nice, but.... When I click on an item on the left (for example a version...Looks nice, but....
When I click on an item on the left (for example a version) - I get a message saying error finding issues with no other info.
Nov 05, 2005
Brock Janiczak says:
Chanan, try the latest version. It fixed a few connection problems. ...Chanan, try the latest version. It fixed a few connection problems. Enter a bug if you are still having trouble.
Nov 11, 2005
Jaap Boersma says:
Are there any plans for an eclipse 3.0.x compatible version of the plugin? In ou...Are there any plans for an eclipse 3.0.x compatible version of the plugin? In our business we use the IBM Rational suite (Rational Application Developer 6.0.1) which is based on eclipse 3.0.2. Could the plugin be written to support both 3.0. and 3.1?
Nov 11, 2005
Brock Janiczak says:
Sorry, no plans. It would be possible to support 3.0 by removing all usage...Sorry, no plans. It would be possible to support 3.0 by removing all usage of the Link widget and the Browser plugin. The plugin manifests may also be a problem, but it shouldn't be too hard to move that information back into the plugin.xml file.
Nov 15, 2005
No User by that name says:
Hello, I'm quite interested in your plugin, but our JIRA installation is reacha...Hello,
I'm quite interested in your plugin, but our JIRA installation is reachable only via a https and client certificate authentication (only for tunneling not for jira authentication). I have tried to specify the following params in eclipse.ini without success:
-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=xyz.p12
-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStoreType=pkcs12
-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword=xxxxx
Would it be possible to introduce this access method into your plugin and make it configurable via the "Add Jira Server" dialog ?
Thanks,
Tanju
Nov 17, 2005
Brock Janiczak says:
I have looked into doing this, but haven't been able to find anything useful. W...I have looked into doing this, but haven't been able to find anything useful. We use both Axis and HTTPClient for communications. HTTPClient looks to be easy enough to fix, but I have no idea about Axis. My guess is that you need to supply a custom handler.
Patches will be accepted
Nov 17, 2005
Anonymous says:
When Eclipse update manager asks for a URL to search for the plug-in, what shoul...When Eclipse update manager asks for a URL to search for the plug-in, what should I tell it? I have tried what I thought might work to no avail.
Nov 17, 2005
Brock Janiczak says:
It should be http://jira-dashboard.tigris.org/update as listed at the top of thi...It should be http://jira-dashboard.tigris.org/update as listed at the top of this page. It worked about a week ago when i updated my work PC.
It might be possible that you don't match the requirements for installation. Try deselecting the "ignore features not applicable to this environment" option. You have to be running at least Eclipse 3.1.
Enter a bug against the WWW component if it still doesn't work for you.
Jan 10, 2006
Lars G. Svensson says:
I've installed ver 0.6.0 of the plugin in Eclipse 3.1.0 (Build I20050627-1435). ...I've installed ver 0.6.0 of the plugin in Eclipse 3.1.0 (Build I20050627-1435). The view shows up nicely, but I can't connect to our jira server. I enter the connection properties correctly (I guess), but get the answer "Server Error: No such operation 'login'". Any ideas?
Thanks
Lars
Jan 10, 2006
Lars G. Svensson says:
I forgot to say that we're running Jira 3.4.2 LarsI forgot to say that we're running Jira 3.4.2
Lars
Jan 10, 2006
Brock Janiczak says:
It is possible that the RPC plugin is misbehaving. I have seen something simila...It is possible that the RPC plugin is misbehaving. I have seen something similar once before. There was a WSDL, but it had no operations.
Try opening up http://<jirahost>/rpc/soap/jirasoapservice-v2?wsdl in your web browser. With luck you should see a valid WSDL including a bunch of operations (search for login). If the file looks suspiciously empty, try enabling/disabling the rpc plugin and restarting your servlet container.
If that fixes your problem, you may want to raise a support request with Atlassian.
Jan 10, 2006
Lars G. Svensson says:
Brock, Thanks for your prompt reply! Yup, restarting jira (not the servlet ...Brock,
Thanks for your prompt reply! Yup, restarting jira (not the servlet container) did the trick. I've asked our administrator to dig deeper into it and if desired report to atlassian.
Thanks
Lars
Mar 01, 2006
Darren Bell says:
Check out the Mylar plugin from Eclipse. They are adding JIRA support and ...Check out the Mylar plugin from Eclipse. They are adding JIRA support and looks VERY good.
May 12, 2006
amarin says:
Hi, I just downloaded the plugin. I'm running Jira 3.6 #153, Eclipse 3.10 and t...Hi,
I just downloaded the plugin. I'm running Jira 3.6 #153, Eclipse 3.10 and the latest plugin availible...
But when I try to add a Jira server, I get a message box saying:
"Bad Envelope Tag: html"
What can I do ?
Thanks !!
May 12, 2006
Brock Janiczak says:
See http://developer.atlassian.com/jira/browse/JDB-93 Your Jira admin needs to ...See http://developer.atlassian.com/jira/browse/JDB-93
Your Jira admin needs to enable the remote interface. Check the Jira manual for details.
May 16, 2006
jane says:
Hi, I'm running Jira 3.6, Eclipse 3.10 and the latest plugin availible... &nbs...Hi,
I'm running Jira 3.6, Eclipse 3.10 and the latest plugin availible...
But I get a message box when I updating:
"org.eclipse.update.internal.core.SiteFilePackedPluginContentConsumer"
What can I do ?
Thanks !!
May 16, 2006
Brock Janiczak says:
Are you getting this during installation or when using the plugin? You might wa...Are you getting this during installation or when using the plugin?
You might want to check your eclipse log for more details. The view is called Error Log and is found under the PDE Runtime group.
The first tiing to try would be a fresh install of eclipse with a new workspace.
If it does look like an error with Jira Dashboard, raise an issue here http://developer.atlassian.com/jira
Jun 13, 2006
John Allen says:
I am running under XP SP2, Eclipse 3.1.2, JIRA 3.5.3, JIRA Dashboard 0.9.0 and I...I am running under XP SP2, Eclipse 3.1.2, JIRA 3.5.3, JIRA Dashboard 0.9.0 and I get the following error when trying to create a new JIRA connection instance:
org.w3c.dom.Node.getTextContent()Ljava/lang/String;
Everything worked fine with Eclipse 3.1.0
I guess this is related to JIRA ticket: http://developer.atlassian.com/jira/browse/JDB-80
But I have gone hunting for anything dom/xml related in both my existing plugins and my projects and found nothing (I removed all my projects and the only XML jars in the eclipse install dir were PMD ones which i renamed and then bounced Eclipse but got the same error)
Any pointers?
Jan 31, 2007
Wendy Sadeh says:
I installed the plugin, and it finds my JIRA server with my projects. But ...I installed the plugin, and it finds my JIRA server with my projects. But when I try to see issues I get the following error:
Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: "org.eclipse.jface".org.eclipse.swt.SWTException: Unsupported or unrecognized format
at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:3374)
at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:3297)
at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:3268)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.image.FileFormat.load(FileFormat.java:82)
at org.eclipse.swt.graphics.ImageLoader.load(ImageLoader.java:127)
at org.eclipse.swt.graphics.ImageDataLoader.load(ImageDataLoader.java:22)
at org.eclipse.swt.graphics.ImageData.<init>(ImageData.java:328)
Sep 25, 2007
Sven Lundblad says:
Hi, we are runningEclipse 3.2.2 (on Linux), Dashboard 0.9.2, Jira 3.6.2-#156 an...Hi,
we are runningEclipse 3.2.2 (on Linux), Dashboard 0.9.2, Jira 3.6.2-#156 and connect through https. When I try to add the JIRA server I get the following error: sun.security.validator.VatidatorException: No trusted certificate found
Anyone know what I need to do to get it to work?
Nov 15, 2007
Thomas Krug says:
Hi, I just installed the package and receive in eclipse the error "Invalid elem...Hi,
I just installed the package and receive in eclipse the error "Invalid element in com.atlassian.jira.rpc.soap.beans.RemoteIssueType - subTask".
Thereafter no issues show up in the view.
Jira Version is the latest 3.11 and all configurations are done as documented (I hope).
Any idea's?
Nov 24, 2007
Andy Brook says:
Just tried this, and got an error dialog when adding a jira instance to the Team...Just tried this, and got an error dialog when adding a jira instance to the Team/Issue Tracker view:

Eclipse .metadata/.log file
!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui.workbench 2 0 2007-11-24 10:19:49.400 !MESSAGE A handler conflict occurred. This may disable some commands. !SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.ui.workbench 2 0 2007-11-24 10:19:49.400 !MESSAGE Conflict for 'AUTOGEN:::org.tigris.jira.ui.issueTracker.menu/org.tigris.jira.ui.tracker.StartIssues': HandlerActivation(commandId=AUTOGEN:::org.tigris.jira.ui.issueTracker.menu/org.tigris.jira.ui.tracker.StartIssues, handler=ActionDelegateHandlerProxy(null,org.tigris.jira.internal.ui.tracker.workflow.StartIssuesAction), expression=AndExpression(ViewerContributionExpression(org.tigris.jira.ui.issueTracker,null,org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchWindow@563c563c),WorkbenchWindowExpression(org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchWindow@563c563c)),sourcePriority=-2147467264) HandlerActivation(commandId=AUTOGEN:::org.tigris.jira.ui.issueTracker.menu/org.tigris.jira.ui.tracker.StartIssues, handler=ActionDelegateHandlerProxy(null,org.tigris.jira.internal.ui.tracker.workflow.StopIssuesAction), expression=AndExpression(ViewerContributionExpression(org.tigris.jira.ui.issueTracker,null,org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchWindow@563c563c),WorkbenchWindowExpression(org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchWindow@563c563c)),sourcePriority=-2147467264)Nov 26, 2007
Bob Swift says:
I don't think this plugin is current. I would suggest using Mylyn instead.I don't think this plugin is current. I would suggest using Mylyn instead.
Dec 14, 2007
Andreas Guther says:
I see the same error while running against Jira 3.11: unsupported content-encod...I see the same error while running against Jira 3.11:
unsupported content-encoding of " found
Aug 22
powerccna says:
I got same error. unsupported content-encoding of '' found. Below...I got same error.
unsupported content-encoding of '' found.
Below is my software version, does someone resolve this issue?
eclipse.buildId=M20060921-0945
java.version=1.5.0_09
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=en_CN
Command-line arguments: -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86
Mar 28, 2008
Helen says:
Has anyone had any success with the Jira Dashboard eclipse plugin on Mac OS X? I...Has anyone had any success with the Jira Dashboard eclipse plugin on Mac OS X? If so, where/how do you configure the JIRA server in Eclipse? I haven't been able to find any useful info. online.
I'm running:
Please help. Thanks.
Mar 28, 2008
Bob Swift says:
This is obsolete. Use Mylyn.This is obsolete. Use Mylyn.
Apr 01, 2008
Helen says:
A simple answer - I love it. Thank you, BobA simple answer - I love it. Thank you, Bob