Extending JIRA activity streams

Available:	JIRA 4.4 and later
Changes:	Please refer to the Activity Streams documentation and especially the version matrix to see which version of Activity Streams is bundled with each version of JIRA.

This information is for developers who want to interact programmatically with Atlassian activity streams.

What are Activity Streams?

An activity stream is a list of events, displayed to a user in an attractive and interactive interface. They are usually recent activities by the current user and other people using the same social site(s) or system(s).

An example is the Activity Stream gadget used on JIRA dashboards.

Coding with Activity Streams

Take a look at the Activity Streams documentation to see how you can interact with Activity Streams in Atlassian products. In brief:

Consume an activity stream from an Atlassian application.
Add your own inline actions to an activity stream.
Add activities to a third party feed using the Java API or the REST API.
Build your own Activity Streams provider.