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Ed Bras commented on MPMD-84: ----------------------------- It's not fixed! Yes, the "<excludes>" in maven works well, I use it, but the issue is about the <exclude-pattern> ... But, the "<exclude-pattern>" doesn't work in a ruleset xml file (like explained in the url listed in the original issue). I just tested it several times against 2.5. I changed the package pattern, etc... but didn't got it to work. The only way I got it to exclude to run the rule against the gwt pacakges was to exclude the complete file that contains the rulesets ;)... See below for details, I hope this helps. Example: I use it to exclude rules against google GWT code. My pom snippet: ----- <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-pmd-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.5</version> <configuration> <rulesets> <ruleset>../rulesets/basic.xml</ruleset> .... .... <ruleset>../rulesets/safeGwt.xml</ruleset> </rulesets> <linkXref>true</linkXref>--> <sourceEncoding>utf-8</sourceEncoding> <minimumTokens>100</minimumTokens> <targetJdk>${java.version}</targetJdk> <excludes> <exclude>**/Assert.java</exclude> </excludes> </configuration> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>bla</groupId> <artifactId>project containing the rulesets in the classpath.</artifactId> <version>${version.ited.gen}</version> </dependency> </dependencies> <executions> <execution> <phase>${report.phase}</phase> <goals> <goal>check</goal> <goal>cpd-check</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> ----- And the safeGwt.xml contains (not all rules included): ---- <ruleset name="Custom ruleset" xmlns="http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ruleset/2.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ruleset/2.0.0 http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ruleset_2_0_0.xsd"> <!-- Exclude the gwt packages --> <exclude-pattern>.*/gwt/.*</exclude-pattern> <rule name="NonThreadSafeSingleton" message="Singleton is not thread safe" class="net.sourceforge.pmd.rules.design.NonThreadSafeSingleton" [... all rule details ...] </rule> </ruleset> ---- > Maven PMD plugin does not honour exclude-pattern in PMD rulesets > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MPMD-84 > URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPMD-84 > Project: Maven 2.x PMD Plugin > Issue Type: Bug > Components: PMD > Affects Versions: 2.4 > Reporter: Denis Cabasson > Attachments: mpmd84-20100716.patch > > > According to PMD documentation, exclude-patterns should be independendant on > the program running PMD : > http://pmd.sourceforge.net/howtomakearuleset.html > But Maven scans through all the files, not taking into account the > exclude-patterns and thus including files that shouldn't be. > THose file should be filtered out by the maven plugin -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira