How to use Eclipse Neon's Mylyn with Jira since connector was discontinued

Question

After a terrible decision by Atlassian to discontinue the Eclipse Connector for Jira, it seems to me like there is no way to use Mylyn in Eclipse Neon to integrate with Jira. Is

Answer 1

It definitively works with Eclipse Oxygen (still), using the Updatesite from atlassian, which is also mentioned on the Bitbucket OpenSource project. Please note, the help page, which is also hosted there, offers a download link to use the updatesite offline. Since the actual data there is in fact hosted by atlassian, let's just hope they don't drop support for hosting those files.

Update Site URL: http://update.atlassian.com/atlassian-eclipse-plugin/rest/e3.7
I got the Version: 3.2.5.v20150427

As far as I can see, the support is still fully functional, including the ability to create new tickets, add comments and manage ticket lifecycle

PS: I needed to configure the proxy settings accordingly (Jira is hosted in-house here, so we need an exception rule for the proxy used for internet connection by default).