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How it works…
Webhooks follow an event-based mechanism, where the source system (in this case, JIRA)
will make a HTTP POST call to all the registered webhooks when a registered event oc-
curs. This is very similar to JIRA's internal notification system where e-mails are sent
based on events.
With the event-based approach, instead of requiring the remote application to constantly
poll JIRA for changes, which is both inefficient and inadequate for situations where
changes need to be processed in real time, the remote application can be registered in JIRA
with a webhook, and JIRA will call the application when the event occurs.
