Download jiraRestAccess.zip

Unzip to a scratch directory.  This will create two files:

  jiraRestAccess.jar
  lib/jira-rest-all-dependencies.jar

For that scratch directory:

To connect and get the Server's date:

   java -jar jiraRestAccess.jar http://<jira-host:port> <user>:<password>

To retrieve an issue:

   java -jar jiraRestAccess.jar http://<jira-host:port> <user>:<password> <issue-id>
   

To update an issue.  The appends the last argument to the issue's summary:

   java -jar jiraRestAccess.jar http://<jira-host:port> <user>:<password> <issue-id> <chars>
   

If you don't provide a password on the command line then we'll prompt for it.