Is it possible to make mvn clean install of custom JIRA plugin without removing of Jira webapp?

[Arthur arthurdn]

Is it possible to make mvn clean install of custom JIRA plugin without removing of whole Jira webapp each time? Place tomcat somewhere maybe and link to it?

[Nir Haimov · Accepted solution]

Hi,

If you "atlas-run" from your plugin root dir, than you can't avoid of removing the entire Jira data while "clean".

What you can do (only if you really don't want the Jira data gone every time),

create a Jira standalone instance in another dir by running "atlas-run-standalone --product jira"

It will create a Jira instance clear of plugins, to install your plugin you will have to manually upload it each time from the admin add-on screen (unlike the first method which you just package and it's updated in Jira).

That way the Jira intance and the plugin are not seating at the same place, so cleaning the plugin project will not touch the Jira instance itself.