Running maven with static analysis tools plugin like pmd, jdepend, findbugs … Getting the below error !! Kindly help to resolve

Question

[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
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[INFO] Error getting reports from the plugin 'org.codehaus.mojo:findbugs-maven-plugin:1.0-beta-1': Unable to load the mojo 'org.codehaus.mojo:findbugs-maven-plugin:1.0-beta-1:findbugs' in the plugin 'org.codehaus.mojo:findbugs-maven-plugin'. A required class is missing: edu/umd/cs/findbugs/AbstractBugReporter

Answer 1

The problem with this is you simply using an outdated version of the maven-findbugs-plugin . The current version for the findbugs-plugin is 2.3.X or 2.4.0...That is causing the problems with missing classes etc.