What is the proper way to use Cobertura with Maven 3.0.2

Question

I have been trying unsuccessfully for the last few days to run Cobertura 2.4 with Maven 3.0.2. We have a very large project with many modules (sub-projects). What I found is

Answer 1

I successfully integrated Cobertura in my projects with adding this:

  
    
      
        org.codehaus.mojo
        cobertura-maven-plugin
        2.4
        
          
            
              foo/bar/**/*.class
            
          
        
    
      
        clean
        pre-site
        
          clean
        
      
      
        instrument
        site
        
          instrument
          cobertura
        
      
    
      
    
  

  
    
      
    
    org.codehaus.mojo
    cobertura-maven-plugin
    2.4
    
      
        html
        xml
      
     
      
    
  

If you run mvn cobertura:cobertura the reports will be generated in target\site\cobertura. See also maven cobertura plugin.

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