Maven check style as a part of the build

Question

Is there a possibility to somehow force maven to fail the build if there are some checkstyle errors? Now I have to run site goal to generate java

Answer 1

Even though it has been a long time since this was asked, I did run into another problem:

JavadocMethod: Unable to get class information for @throws tag 'X'.

I solved this by changing the phase from "validate" to "test" so that checkstyle runs after the compile phase.