Plugin Information
This plugin generates the trend report for PMD, an open source static code analysis program.
 | Installation Requirements This plug-in requires the utility plug-in "analysis-core" (called "Static Analysis Utilities" in the update manager). Please ensure that the latest version of this plug-in is also installed. |
Description

This plug-in is supported by the Static Analysis Collector plug-in that collects different analysis results and shows the results in aggregated trend graphs. Additionally, health reporting and build stability is also based on the aggregated results.
The PMD plug-in scans for pmd.xml files in the build workspace and reports the number of warnings found. This plug-in is part of the suite of static code analysis plug-ins that are documented on a separate WIKI page.
The following features are provided by this plug-in:
- Configuration of the files to scan after a build.
- Build summary showing the new and fixed warnings of a build
- Several trend reports showing the number of warnings per build
- Overview of the found warnings per module, package, category, or type
- Parsing of Maven pom.xml or Ant build.xml configuration files to obtain the module or project name
- Parsing of Java files to obtain the package or name space name
- Detail reports of the found warnings optionally filtered by severity (or new and fixed)
- Short messages is read from the report file
- Detailed description is read from the PMD library
- Colored HTML display of the corresponding source file and warning lines:
- Direct link to the warning line
- Highlighting of single lines as well as line ranges
- Highlighting of multiple line ranges per warning (different color for primary range)
- Tool tip describing the warning message
- Failure threshold to mark a build as unstable
- Configurable project health support
- Works with the freestyle and native m2 build option of Hudson (activated on goal pmd:pmd or site)
- Remote API to export the build quality and found warnings
- Localization available for: DE, JA (Please help to localize PMD for your locale!)
The current release is available in the download section. This plug-in is developed and maintained by Ullrich Hafner. Please use the Hudson mailing lists or issue tracker to ask questions, create feature request or bug reports, since I don't read the comment section on this page regularly.
ChangeLog
Release 3.2
Release 3.1
- Fixed trend report link if there are no results available yet (issue #5156)
- Fixed preview of trend reports
- Added dependency to Hudson 1.337 due to a class loader bug in previous versions (issue #4993)
Release 3.0
- Extracted common code of the static code analysis plug-ins into a new utility plug-in "analysis-core"
- Several bug fixes and small improvements
Release 1.x - 2.x ChangeLog
Comments (3)
Dec 17
bokc says:
Hi, I can't find 3.0 release on the download Section. BokCHi,
I can't find 3.0 release on the download Section.
BokC
Dec 18
Ulli Hafner says:
Seems that my release process has a bug somewhere. Can't you use the update mana...Seems that my release process has a bug somewhere. Can't you use the update manager?
Dec 22
bokc says:
No, it's not possible. Hudson isinstaled on a server and for security it don't h...No, it's not possible. Hudson isinstaled on a server and for security it don't have acces to web.