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Blueprint is a new API in Confluence 5 that allows developers to create new content elements and to hook into the Confluence “create” dialogue – not to be confused with OSGi blueprints, the CSS blueprint framework or Tinkerpop Blueprints here. Content may be added using simple XHTML templates, dynamic templates enriched with data from context providers or even customized JavaScript dialogues. Another feature is, that pages of a specific blueprint type may be aggregated in a collector view that displays all pages created with the specific blueprint ...

You’re using the popular Confluence wiki? You’re using its RPC/SOAP API and missing a function you really need? Just extend the capabilities of the Confluence RPC API by programming a custom web service component – it is really easy and also well documented. In this tutorial we’re going to take a look on how to quickly implement a SOAP service, securing it and putting its methods in a transactional context. Prerequisites Maven >=2 JDK >= 5 Confluence Wiki >= 3.0 (for a quick installation guide take a look at this article) SoapUI for Testing ...

Sometimes one needs to look up license details of a running Confluence system .. perhaps for creating a commercial plugin or to display recommendations dependant from the license used. For this reason there are a few possibilities for receiving some license information from the Confluence API or the velocity context. Note: This article is outdated since the Atlassian Marketplace was launched and a shiny new licensing API was added. Until this article is updated I strongly recommend to take a closer look at the detailed information that Atlassian is providing in the Developer Documentation. ...

In this tutorial we are going to build a SOAP client for the popular Confluence Wiki in about five minutes. The client is going to receive rendered HTML Markup from a specified Confluence Page. Prerequisites A running Confluence Installation with SOAP API enabled – if you don’t already have one take a look at this article or if you’ve got the Atlassian Plugin SDK installed .. start a standalone instance using atlas-run-standalone .. Maven – never go without it ;) Five minutes of your life time .. ...

This short tutorial shows how to set-up a developer instance of the popular Confluence Wiki from Atlassian in a few minutes. It’s a prerequisite for a few following tutorials regarding the Confluence API and plug-in development for this system. We want a quick install so we are going to run Confluence with the embedded servlet container and HSQL database. update Meanwhile it is way much easier to use Atlassian’s Plugin SDK using atlas-mvn run or atlas-mvn-run-standalone –product confluence –version x.x.x but if you need to setup an independant instance, this article still might be useful. ...