PMD Eclipse plugin

Question

I have installed PMD for eclipse 3.8 in the debian successfully. However, I am following these ( http://www.eclipsezone.com/articles/pmd/ ) instructions to test a simple check and I get not violation, warnings, errors, etc...despite that the plugin in enabled through Properties -> PMD. Am I missing something in the configuration ?

Answer 1

The normal problem here is that your problems view is not instrumented the right way. Do the following steps to correct it:

1. Call the drop-down-menu and select "Configure Contents..."
2. Ensure that all items are shown, or that your selection includes the PMD errors
3. Accept your configuration change, and control, if the PMD infos, warnings, and errors are now visible.

Answer 2

Unlike FindBug or CheckStyle, the PMD Eclipse plug-in does not configure which rules to check for by default. You have to manually check which rules to use by going to Eclipse Preferences -> PMD -> Rule Configuration

Answer 3

I have also installed PMD as per instruction provided at

http://www.eclipsezone.com/articles/pmd/

Its working fine for me i am able to genrate PMD reports, find the violation result.

What was the exact error are you getting.

Note : I have downloded PMD eclipse 3 plugin