Developing plugins for Crowd

Crowd now ships with the Atlassian Plugin Framework 2. This gives developers lots of flexibility in extending Crowd and as more Atlassian applications migrate to version 2 you should see more similarities with configuration and development.

Plugin Framework Overview

For an overview of the plugin framework and plugin development, please refer to

• An overview of the Atlassian plugin development platform.
• Latest documentation for the Atlassian Plugin Framework 2.
• This version of Crowd supports version 2.2 of the Atlassian Plugin Framework.

The Plugin Framework in Crowd

Currently Crowd has the following plugin points. A few of these are specific to Crowd, while others are more general across all Atlassian products.

1. Password Encoders
2. Web menu items and sections
3. Event listeners
4. Servlets
5. Filters
6. Spring components
7. REST plugin modules

The Crowd Google Apps connector is implemented as a plugin. Crowd customers get source-code access to both the plugin and Crowd itself, and can use the source in conjunction with the documentation to understand best practices for plugin development.

Adding your Plugin to your Crowd Instance

Once you have created your plugin, you should put the jar into the plugins directory, a sub-directory of your shared Crowd home directory (or the main Crowd directory in versions prior to Crowd 3.0).

If you'd like to release your plugin to the world, please take a look at the guidelines in our Developer Network.