On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Drew Farris <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, I suspected this was the case and had been running site:site > > I'm also a little confused about what goes in the plugin configuration in > either build/plugins or build/pluginManagement vs what goes in the reports > section of the pom. > In this you can sadly join a long line of confused people. This is a big problem with Maven. > > Also, was wondering if the execution for checkstyle and pmd that binds to > the validate phase was strictly necessary. > This is the crux. Do you want enforcement, reporting, or both? The validate phase run is for enforcement: the build fails on a specified set of rules. If you want no enforcement, you need no executions, and only reporting specs -- but you are firmly in the clutches of all the problems of the site plugin.
