Add-on JAR wrong file structure for development

[Artemy Matvienko]

I am trying to modify a GNU add-on for JIRA, but the file structure the JAR file extracts doesn't seem compatible with the Atlassian SDK.

When I try the atlas-run command in the root of the extracted directory, the JIRA instance boots up, but the "Manage add-ons" page says "This add-on couldn't be loaded. It has one or more errors that prevent it from being enabled." for the grayed-out add-on I'm trying to install. I don't actually know if its the directory structure that's the problem, but it is indeed quite different from the structure that the atlas-create-jira-plugin command generates. I even had to move the pom file to the root for the JIRA instance to boot up at all.

This is what the structure looks like:

While this is the structure Atlassian generates and expects:

Any ideas why that is and how to best handle this discrepancy? 

[Artemy Matvienko · Accepted solution]

I downloaded the code from the repo, and it works fine now.