SonarQube “Class Not Found” during Main AST Scan

Question

My setup:

• Sonarqube 5.1.1
• Sonar-Maven Plugin 2.6 (also tried 2.7 and 3.6)
• JDK 1.7.0_51

Example of the error:

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Answer 1

To avoid adding SonarQube specific dependencies to your project, define a profile like this:

    
        sonarqube
        
            
                org.joda
                joda-convert
                1.2
            
            
                com.google.code.findbugs
                jsr305
                3.0.0
            
        
    

Then run your sonar analysis with a command like

mvn org.sonarsource.scanner.maven:sonar-maven-plugin:3.0.1:sonar -Psonarqube,sonarqube-dev

The sonarqube-dev profile is defined in my ~/.m2/settings.xml and it just specifies where my development environment SonarQube installation is

    
        sonarqube-dev
        
            
            
                http://localhost:9000/
            
        
    

What is achieved by all this?

• sonarqube analysis specific dependencies don't pollute the project unnecessarily
• no sonarqube maven plugin defined in pom.xml. Each developer and Jenkins can use whatever sonar plugin and server installation they wish