How to develop plugin tools to integrate two JIRA instances?

[anatarajan]

Hey, I'm trying to sync of projects and issues between two JIRA instances and have real time updates from both instances. I looked into forge and connect but don't seem to find anything on how to create a bi-directional link between JIRA instances. However, I do see that there are apps currently available that do this and so, I was wondering how these apps were developed? Are they done using forge/connect or using the Atlassian SDK instead?

I would also need real time updates between the two JIRA instances (so if an issue gets a new comment on one instance, it should be automatically sent to the other instance).

Thanks for your help!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Most (I suspect all) of the apps you've found that do synchronisation were originally written with the SDK (or if not, with something that could use the stuff the SDK refers to natively) - they were built for Server/DC.

Where there are Cloud variants of them, then it would have been Connect - Forge is a relatively recent thing.  But most Cloud developers are using Forge now, so yes, you can expect a sync app (and most others) to be Forge/Connect.

Unless your synchronisation is really very simple, I very strongly recommend you look at the apps in the marketplace - it's going to cost you a lot more to write and maintain it yourself than to buy a subscription to one of them.

[anatarajan]

Thanks for your response! Do you have resources that would help me on creating a Forge syncing app? I have looked at triggers (for real time information relay) but I just can't seem to find any resources on making forge apps communicate with one another between two jira instances. If I have the forge app installed on both instances, is there a way to relay information between these forge apps?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Your apps will need to make REST calls to each other, if you are going the Forge way.