How to make maven-pmd-plugin support the latest PMD release?

Question

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-pmd-plugin/ is currently in version 2.4 which supports PMD version 4.2.2

Is it possible to use PMD version 4.2.5 with this plugin, if so how do we do this?

Answer 1

There is a Jira Issue for this, see MPMD-97 (I suggest to vote for it).

For now, you can try to upgrade locally the pmd version used in the plugin with:

  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-pmd-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.4</version>

        <dependencies>

          <dependency>
              <groupId>pmd</groupId>
              <artifactId>pmd-jdk14</artifactId>
              <version>4.2.5</version>
          </dependency>

        </dependencies>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>

I didn't test this, I don't know if it'll work seamlessly.