How to Add custom JAR to the “eclipse-pmd” plugin?
Installed the Eclipse PMD plugin (written by Philip Graf ) from here . I tried to associate a custom PMD rule classes JAR but couldn't find a provision for it. This JAR contains custom rule classes (that extends AbstractJavaRule indirectly). So is there any way to configure eclipse-pmd plugin to accept this custom JAR? My custompmd.jar has this structure: custompmd.jar └─com/pmd/custom └─AvoidHardcodingRule.class └─AvoidCatchWithoutLogErrorRule.class └─etc... Simply putting it in plugins directory didn't help. One of the SO question suggests a solution but that's for a different plugin .