We are pleased to announce the Maven PMD Plugin 1.2 release! http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/pmd/ The Maven PMD plugin is a plugin that wraps the PMD framework (http://pmd.sourceforge.net). PMD is a source checking framework that works by scanning Java source code and looks for potential problems like: unused local variables, empty catch blocks, unused parameters, empty 'if' statements, etc. =============================================================================== Changes in this version include: Changes: o Upgraded to use PMD 1.2.1. =============================================================================== To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line: maven plugin:download -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://people.apache.org/repo/m1-snapshot-repository/,http://repo1.maven.org/maven -DgroupId=maven -DartifactId=maven-pmd-plugin -Dversion=1.2 For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-pmd-plugin-1.2.jar Have fun! -The Maven PMD Plugin development team