Generating Sonar reports using maven

Steps to follow the generate Sonar reports:

1. Download and Unzip the Sonar version corresponding to your Maven version from http://www.sonarsource.org/downloads/ . example – version 3.5.1

2. Download plugins from http://docs.codehaus.org/display/SONAR/Sonar+PDF+Plugin and place under the folder “sonar-3.5.1\extensions\plugins” which is downloaded in step 1.

3. Sonar dependency to the POM file

 4. Run the batch file \sonar-3.5.1\bin\windows-x86\StartSonar.bat.

5. Use the maven command mvn sonar: sonar to generate the Sonar report (You will have to increase the Heap size via the JMV arguments).

6. The report will be generated at localhost:9000

7. We have attached the sonar PDF reports in the mingle

Note: Increase Heap size in eclipse in case of generating sonar report from eclipse:

      -Xms512m -Xms1024m

If we use command prompt to generate sonar report the set environment variable:

MAVEN_OPTS: -Xmx1024m