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Asked: 2026-06-09T10:16:22+00:00

I tried $java -jar ../lib/pmd-5.0.0.jar /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/MYPROJECT/workspace/ xml error: Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute

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I tried 

$java -jar ../lib/pmd-5.0.0.jar /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/MYPROJECT/workspace/ xml

error:
Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from
../lib/pmd-5.0.0.jar

as per docs from PMD

i also tried:

$java -jar ../lib/pmd-5.0.0.jar /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/MYPROJECT/workspace/ xml java-basic,java-design -encoding UTF-8
Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from
../lib/pmd-5.0.0.jar

resolved it by using the following Syntax:

cd ../pmd/bin
./run.sh pmd  /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/MYPROJECT/ xml java-basic,java-design -encoding UTF-8 | tee ../../MYPROJECT/pmd.xml
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  1. Editorial Team

    Where do you see that in the doc you linked to?

    All of the examples I see on that page say to run java using the PMD class name rather than with the -jar flag. (Which is what I use when running PMD)

    Which gives you something like:
    java net.sourceforge.pmd.PMD /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/MYPROJECT/workspace/ xml rulesets/java/imports.xml

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