Writing a NetBeans Plugin for Atlassian Bamboo Continuous Integration – Part 01

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Since it doesn’t seem that there is an existing plugin I figured I would take a stab at trying to make one. This blog entry will be the first in what I’m sure will be many blog entries that will chronicle my beginner attempts to create a NetBeans plugin compatible in NetBeans 7+ that allows users to define, connect, and work with the Atlassian Bamboo continuous integration server, similar to the Hudson plugin. The other challenging part will be to learn the Bamboo REST APIS. I am fairly familiar with REST APIs and have reviewed the existing API calls for Bamboo. It seems it supports most if not all the functionality developers need to work effectively with Bamboo while in their NetBeans IDE.

I grabbed Mercurial and installed it locally. Then grabbed the latest clone of NetBeans. It took a while and downloaded about 2 GB of all NetBeans-related modules.

After spending a great deal of time browsing a few plugins for the functionality I wanted, especially the Hudson plugin, I created a new plugin project “bamboo”, started hacking around, and grabbing bits and pieces from other modules. There’s not much there, but so far I got the root node to show up in the Services window, see the image below.

Additionally, if you right-click and select Add New Server, a dialog window opens prompting you to enter the name, URL, username, and password of the Bamboo server.

So far, this is as far as I have gotten. In future blog posts I will go into a variety of details about code sample, config issues, Bamboo REST API issues, etc. I still have a LOT of reading to do and figuring stuff out, but so far so good!