With the release of JIRA 5, we made significant improvements to the JIRA REST API. The full featured JIRA REST API allows you to create, update, and search for issues. You can even take advantage of JIRA 5's newest features by creating remote issue links and adding custom events to the activity stream. Developers love this because it's much easier to use REST than the previous SOAP, XML-RPC, and JSON-RPC interfaces for JIRA. Plus, with all of the great resources out there – like the REST API

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