Running PMD coding standards checker on Maven Built code

Hi,

I have a mumtimodule project which I have set up using Maven 2.
Now I want to run PMD code checker on the same using eclipse. But I am not able to do that.

Please let me know if anyone has some idea about the same

ItDoesntWorkIsUseless... I run PMD on Maven projects with no issues.

Are you trying to run it from within Eclipse?

I am not even able to configure it.

Configure what? PMD? How did you install it? What are you trying to configure?

actually I have maven 2 working fine with eclipse
I rightclick on the Pom.xml and generate a War file

Now I want to use PMD to check standards for the same code. But not able to get how to use PMD with Maven generated code.

That'd depend on where Maven is generating the source code; do you have that directory as an Eclipse source directory? I don't remember how PMD chooses which directories to scan--if it uses working sets just create a working set that includes the generated source directory.

In general, however, you don't want to check generated source: that source lies outsides of your control, unless you're modifying the mechanism used to generate the code. If you *are* going to check the generated code I'd also recommend running FindBugs on it.