install custom JIRA plugin

[Donal Murtagh]

I've created a JIRA plugin (actually a Gadget packaged as a plugin). After packaging the plugin, I have a .jar file. I now want to install this plugin into our local JIRA instance (v. 4.0.2), but can't seem to find the necessary instructions.

[Radek Kantor]

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA040/Installing+and+Configuring+Plugins

All JIRA Documentations:

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/ALLDOC/_All+Versions+of+JIRA+Documentation

[Donal Murtagh]

Thanks for the speedy response. Is there a more efficient way to test a plugin while it's still under development?

[Radek Kantor]

Agree with Jamie, run plugin changes: https://developer.atlassian.com/display/DOCS/Run+your+Changes

[JamieA]

Could you stay on the thread you created: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/40445/test-jira-plugin-under-development

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

For 4.0, you should add it to (jira home)/plugins/installed-plugins

That assumes it's a version 2 plugin (there are two types of plugin - version 1's go in the application WEB-INF/lib, but Atlassian are moving away from them, as the v2's are more flexible and can be installed via the UI in later versions)