Demonstrates the usage of PMD with maven-pmd-plugin.
Run with
mvn clean verify
This should find the following violations in Main.java:
[INFO] PMD Failure: net.sourceforge.pmd.examples.maven.simpleproject.Main:6 Rule:UnusedPrivateField Priority:3 Avoid unused private fields such as 'unusedField'..
[INFO] PMD Failure: net.sourceforge.pmd.examples.maven.simpleproject.Main:12 Rule:EmptyControlStatement Priority:3 Empty if statement.
Run with
mvn clean verify -Dpmd.version=7.0.0-SNAPSHOT -Dpmd.plugin.version=3.15.0-SNAPSHOT
in order to set specific version for PMD and/or maven-pmd-plugin.