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.