Java 8 for Sonar, PMD, Findbugs and Checkstyle in IntelliJ

Question

I have upgraded to Java 8 and when I try to run the task sonarRunner in order to get the reports I get the following message.

Execution failed for task ':sonarRunner'.

org.sonar.api.utils.XmlParserException: org.sonar.api.utils.SonarException: Unsupported Java version for PMD: 1.8

Is Java 8 supported in PMD? If yes how can I solve this problem?

Many thanks

Answer 1

Since version 5.1.0, they have had Java 8 support: See Changelists here .

I am not an active Sonar user, but from what I could find, there has been some limitation of Sonar support for Java 8. It looks like you need a more recent version of SonarQube, and version 2.2.0 or higher of the PMD plugin: read here