Having trouble establishing an Application Link with External Application built on Liferay

[John McElroy]

We have an external application (it is a Liferay based application) running on a different server from our jira instance. Both servers are connected into my companies intranet. I tried creating an Application link in jira for this application on the other server, and I was confused as to how to set this up. Also this is the code we are are using in our application to create the issue. Does this look like it will work we are not entirely sure just from looking at the online documentation and the Jira API. The code is in the attached file: Jira_Issue_Creation_Link_Function.txt (Jira_Issue_Creation_Link_Function.txt)

[Dieter · Accepted solution]

hi Blaine, Maybe my own question https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/17240/consuming-jira-gadget-in-liferay and the link in the answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8491844/jira-liferay-integration can answer how to set up an application link between Liferay as consumer and Jira as producer. If this worked you could add a create issue gadget in your Liferay portal and.easily enter bugs from Liferay. But i must confess that i have not yet verified if the solution works. At least the linked answer in my question makes clear where you must store the certificate on the Liferay side which i found the most difficult part. There exists another alternative now to easily enter bugs in Jira by using the new Jira Issues Collector plugin. to use that you just have to embedd some JS code in your application. this code actually looks similar to yours but is sure to work perfectly with the server side plugin. By just looking at your code, i can't tell if it works. But if possible i'd first try the approach to set up an application link and embedd the necessary gadgets in Liferay. good luck!

[Dieter]

Here is the link to the issues collector plugin: https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.jira.collector.plugin.jira-issue-collector-plugin

[John McElroy]

is this plugin free? or do i need to purchase a license to use it?

[John McElroy]

this plugin will hopefully be my salvation

[Joe Clark]

Is the code you're currently using not working? If you can provide some additional detail about what's not working with what you've currently configured, we'll have a better chance at tracking down the problem :-)

[John McElroy]

ok i understand what is needed to be done with the private and public keys but how are these keys generated?

[Dieter]

I used openssl. Look at https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/17240/consuming-jira-gadget-in-liferay

[John McElroy]

ok i have never used this is it just done on the commandline on the jira server or is there a piece of software i need to use?

[Dieter]

On most Linux servers this command line tool should be available out of the box. If not i can be installed using a package installer like RPM.

[John McElroy]

well that could be a problem everything we have runs on Windows Server 2003. I will for an equivalent

[John McElroy]

I have found openssl as a freeware online is this what you used? http://www.openssl.org/
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[Dieter]

Yes, that's it