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Now that JIRA 5 is out, let's talk about one of my favorite features of this new release, JIRA's new REST API. JIRA has supported remote APIs for many years with SOAP, XML-RPC, and JSON-RPC. However, telling developers that you support SOAP (and only SOAP) is like saying that you like writing applications with COBOL -- it's out of style. Today's cool kids gravitate towards REST. It's clean, simple, and highly portable across languages and frameworks.
JIRA introduced its REST API in JIRA 4,

