Any easy way to generate a Findbug HTML report from Maven without site:site?

Question

I am trying to integrate FindBugs in a maven project. Does anyone have a sample pom.xml generating a simple findbug HTML report in target? Is it possible to gen

Answer 1

Findbugs jar contains 5 XSLT transformations that can be used to convert hard to read XML to easy to read HTML so we can use xml-maven-plugin plugin to execute transformation and here is the configuration:

    
        org.codehaus.mojo
        findbugs-maven-plugin
        2.4.0
        
            
                findbug
                verify
                
                    check
                
            
        
        
            
                ${project.build.directory}/findbugs
            
            false
        
    

    
        org.codehaus.mojo
        xml-maven-plugin
        1.0
        
            
                verify
                
                    transform
                
            
        
        
            
                
                    ${project.build.directory}/findbugs
                    ${project.build.directory}/findbugs
                    fancy-hist.xsl
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                        
                            .html
                        
                    
                
            
        
        
            
                com.google.code.findbugs
                findbugs
                2.0.0
            
        
    

To get the report just execute mvn clean install.

The above code snippet contains all 5 possible transformations so try them all and hopefully you will find one you like.

I tried it with maven 3 and Finbugs 2.0