We are pleased to announce the Maven Checkstyle Plugin 2.0 release! http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/checkstyle/ =============================================================================== Changes in this version include: Fixed bugs: o Added ignoreLines 1, 6. Fixes MPCHECKSTYLE-3. o Add maven dependency and classes directory to classpath. This stops 'Unable to get class information for '' errors. o Add xml declaration to generated report. Fixed for character encoding. o I register reports only if source, test,... exists. So, corresponding entrys in menu will appear only if reports are registered. Fixes MPCHANGELOG-9. o Fixes MPCHECKSTYLE-1. Changes: o Update to use maven.docs.*/maven.gen.docs o Upgraded to Checkstyle 3.1. o Updated documentation. o Complete clean of the existing plugin. =============================================================================== To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line: maven plugin:download -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://www.ibiblio.org/maven,http://people.apache.org/repo/m1-snapshot-repository/ -DgroupId=maven -DartifactId=maven-checkstyle-plugin -Dversion=2.0 For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-checkstyle-plugin-2.0.jar Have fun! -The Maven Checkstyle Plugin development team