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How to setup FindBugs with Maven on eclipse

Before you proceed with this exercise, it's required to check my blog on how to create a modular maven project. http://czetsuya-tech.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-to-create-modularized-maven-project.html

1.) In this link you will see the available maven goals for FindBugs:
http://mojo.codehaus.org/findbugs-maven-plugin/plugin-info.html
findbugs:check
findbugs:findbugs
findbugs:gui
findbugs:help

2.) Then we need to add several lines to ipiel-portal's pom.xml, in the reporting->plugins section add:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.4.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <configuration>
     <xmlOutput>true</xmlOutput>
     <!-- Optional directory to put findbugs xdoc xml report -->
     <xmlOutputDirectory>target/site</xmlOutputDirectory>
    </configuration>
   </plugin>

3.) Create a new Run Configuration -> Maven as follows:

4.) Run the new run configuration and you should have findbugsXml.xml file generated inside target folder.

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