My new baby JiraTouch

We have been busy developing our new baby JiraTouch for the last 3 months. It has been a tough journey with lots of unknowns and new things. Platform was new, development tools were new and the team was new. The only knowns were Jira and the C# language. I would like to share some of my observations in this blog post.

What is JiraTouch?

You can read JiraTouch features to learn more about JiraTouch.

You can watch video tutorials to see JiraTouch in action.

You can buy JiraTouch from AppStore.

Jira and SOAP API

No need to talk about the quality of Jira software on its own. But I'm sorry that Jira SOAP API is not as complete as the product itself. The most serious problem is the versioning dilemma of the SOAP API. SOAP API is introduced since Jira version 3.0 but over the time (Recent version is Jira 4.01) there have been lots of changes with the API. Change is normal and we do not expect all aspects shall be covered at once, since the product itself matures and changes so does the SOAP API. But I would be more happy if Jira guys developed a good API versioning strategy with good API change documentation. For example with no specific versioning information included in the wsdl you get different properties for the same Type. One perfect example is RemoteComment type, this type has changed dramatically through Jira versions. Here are examples of the WSDL for different jira versions

This snippet is from the wsdl of a Jira 3.6 installation

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