Maven 2 Checkstyle configLocation

Question

I have a project which has as maven dependency a jar file which includes a xml file where I stored my rules for checkstyle. I thought it would be ok to just use this configuration:

<configLocation>mycheckstyle.xml</configLocation>

My understanding is that the file should be searched on the classpath and my jar file is a Maven dependency so it should be found, however I get a resource not found exception.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Try adding a dependencies section to your plugin configuration.

E.g.,

  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
    <dependencies>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>com.example.whizbang</groupId>
        <artifactId>build-tools</artifactId>
        <version>1.0</version>
      </dependency>
    </dependencies>
  </plugin>

See Maven Checkstyle Plugin - Multimodule Configuration for more information.