Latest 3.3 sonar-maven-plugin and 5.6 LTS as web server. Running sonar analysis with mvn sonar:sonar ( Scanner for Maven ) ignores sonar-project.prop
mvn sonar:sonar
sonar-project.prop
Other way would be to configure reading via Maven Properties Plugin
Q&A
org.codehaus.mojo properties-maven-plugin 1.0.0 initialize read-project-properties sonar-project.properties