Jira / Sakai Update

The integration of the Sakai Help Form (in jira here) and Jira is basically complete.  Posting an issue to the form will create an issue in the SAKAISUPPORT project in Jira.  The implementation isn’t without its warts, which will hopefully be resolved with a much improved RPC interface from Atlassian in version 3.1 of Jira and some additional coding by me.  What is live now for Sakai is tagged as BETA_1 here in Subversion. 

Originally the integration was done using the XMLHttpRequest object, a la GMail, but that proved to be too time consuming with all the different browser inconsistencies.  That would have theoretically been prettier since the client could post rich XML directly to the Jira service.  And people familiar with HTML could easily incorporate it into their pages without much help.  In the end a custom (hey, did I mention warts?) servlet was created for the integration.

In order to publish the work to the community, and so the project doesn’t collapse under its own weight, the structure of the project is being re-tooled (including a much improved Ant build file) before further development takes place.