Use Jira Mylyn connector with Eclipse 2020-03?

Question

I was able to install the connector from http://update.atlassian.com/atlassian-eclipse-plugin/rest/e3.7 as suggested in:

• How to use Eclipse Neon's Mylyn with Jira since connector was discontinued
• How To Install Atlassian Connector On Eclipse Photon 4.8.x Version

Yet when I try to add a new repository it doesn't show Jira in there.

Is there a way to still make it work, maybe by downgrading mylyn?

Answer 1

There appears to be a fork here: https://github.com/rastaman/jira-mylyn-connector

Context

This is a fork of the probably discontinued Atlassian IDE Connector for Eclipse which work on Eclipse 4.8. It has been tested with MacOS and Linux and as Java code it should work everywhere.

Target JIRA platforms

The connector has been lightly tested with JIRA 6.3.1 on-premise and Atlassian Cloud.

With a single release in 2018 labelled:

eclipse-connector-3.2.5.201808261123.zip

I've not tried it yet as my setup using the details on this answer to get the last release from Atlassian, and Eclipse 2020-03 (4.15.0), was working with JIRA on premises.

However we've recently migrated to JIRA Cloud and although it connects I now get this error trying to synchronise task lists:

org.codehaus.jettison.json.jsonexception jsonobject["name"] not found

I assume this is some mismatch between fields in the connector and Jira Cloud so I'll report back here once I've had time to try the forked connector.

Answer 2

I forked the Atlassian connector as well and updated it to work with the current Eclipse. I just made some minor changes so that basic Jira Cloud support now works

https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/jiraconnector

George