Overview

• Download PMD 5.0.0
• What's new in PMD 5.0.0
• PMD in the news
• PMD-related products and books
• Best practices
• Future directions
• Similar projects
• Credits
• License
• What does 'PMD' mean?

Usage

• Installation
• Command line usage
• Ant task usage
• Maven plugin usage
• Mvn plugin usage
• IDE plugin usage
• Suppressing warnings
• Finding duplicated code
• JSP support

Customizing PMD

• Compiling PMD
• How to write a rule
• Writing XPath rules
• How to make a rule set
• How it works
• Rule guidelines
• PMD developers information
• PMD Release Process

For example

• Run PMD on a Sourceforge project

Rule Sets

• jsp
  • Basic JSF
  • Basic JSP
• xsl
  • XPath in XSL
• java
  • Design
  • Coupling
  • Jakarta Commons Logging
  • Basic
  • Strict Exceptions
  • Security Code Guidelines
  • Java Logging
  • Android
  • Controversial
  • Comments
  • Type Resolution
  • Empty Code
  • String and StringBuffer
  • Code Size
  • Braces
  • Unused Code
  • Unnecessary
  • J2EE
  • JavaBeans
  • Migration
  • Import Statements
  • JUnit
  • Naming
  • Finalizer
  • Optimization
  • Clone Implementation
• ecmascript
  • Basic Ecmascript
  • Unnecessary
  • Braces
• xml
  • Basic XML

Project Documentation

• Project Information
• Project Reports