Ultimate Plugin Manager for Crowd

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  Search, disable/enable and uninstall plugins

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  Install own plugins

Inspiration

We participated in a pitch for a big Atlassian Crowd project, for which we planned to develop about 5 custom Crowd plugins. One of our concerns was the lack of an integrated plugin manager. So I promised my colleague to build a plugin manager if we won this pitch (obviously we did).

What it does

• Search for plugins and modules
• Install plugins from Atlassian Marketplace or own plugins (by GUI or CLI)
• Disable or enable plugins
• Uninstall plugins

Challenges I ran into

My main problem was that Crowd development is not documented as well as for other Atlassian products.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

• It's really minimalistic, using only Web 1.0 technologies (even a 1999 style search form), but also has the typical Atlassian look.
• For the latest Crowd versions, it restores the funcionality of "atlas-install-plugin" (which was accidentally blocked by Atlassian). To accomplish this, it has to implement an own backend which is compatible to the Atlassian CLI.
• The name of the plugin :)

What I learned

Development for Atlassian Crowd

What's next for Crowd Ultimate Plugin Manager

Maybe finally switch to Web 2.0/Ajax :)

Built With

• java
• web1.0