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POPMD+Maven+JAVA Error:: Can't find resource rulesets/comments.xml. Make sure the resource is a valid file or URL or is on the CLASSPATH
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    copied!<p>while adding a custom ruleset of PMD , maven is producing an error -<code>net.sourceforge.pmd.RuleSetNotFoundException: Can't find resource rulesets/comments.xml.Make sure the resource is a valid file or URL or is on the CLASSPATH</code>.</p> <p>For others rule sets like basic,naming etc its not giving any error.but when i add new ruleset it produced the error. I also tried <code>&lt;rule ref="rulesets/java/comments.xml/CommentRequired"/&gt;</code>but it also giving the same error. comments.xml is already available in pmd-5.0.2.jar file.</p> <p>My POM.xml</p> <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;dependencies&gt; &lt;dependency&gt; &lt;groupId&gt;junit&lt;/groupId&gt; &lt;artifactId&gt;junit&lt;/artifactId&gt; &lt;version&gt;4.11&lt;/version&gt; &lt;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt; &lt;/dependency&gt; &lt;dependency&gt; &lt;groupId&gt;pmd&lt;/groupId&gt; &lt;artifactId&gt;pmd&lt;/artifactId&gt; &lt;version&gt;5.0.2&lt;/version&gt; &lt;/dependency&gt; &lt;/dependencies&gt; &lt;build&gt; &lt;plugins&gt; &lt;plugin&gt; &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.maven.plugins&lt;/groupId&gt; &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-javadoc-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt; &lt;version&gt;2.9.1&lt;/version&gt; &lt;executions&gt; &lt;execution&gt; &lt;id&gt;attach-javadocs&lt;/id&gt; &lt;goals&gt; &lt;goal&gt;jar&lt;/goal&gt; &lt;/goals&gt; &lt;configuration&gt; &lt;outputDirectory&gt;${project.build.directory}/site/ &lt;/outputDirectory&gt; &lt;reportOutputDirectory&gt;${project.reporting.outputDirectory}/site/ &lt;/reportOutputDirectory&gt; &lt;/configuration&gt; &lt;/execution&gt; &lt;/executions&gt; &lt;/plugin&gt; &lt;plugin&gt; &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.maven.plugins&lt;/groupId&gt; &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-pmd-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt; &lt;version&gt;2.7.1&lt;/version&gt; &lt;configuration&gt; &lt;targetjdk&gt;1.6&lt;/targetjdk&gt; &lt;skip&gt;fasle&lt;/skip&gt; &lt;failOnViolation&gt;false&lt;/failOnViolation&gt; &lt;failurePriority&gt;4&lt;/failurePriority&gt; &lt;verbose&gt;true&lt;/verbose&gt; &lt;rulesets&gt; &lt;ruleset&gt;src/main/resources/rulesets/MyRuleSet.xml&lt;/ruleset&gt; &lt;/rulesets&gt; &lt;/configuration&gt; &lt;executions&gt; &lt;execution&gt; &lt;id&gt;check&lt;/id&gt; &lt;goals&gt; &lt;goal&gt;check&lt;/goal&gt; &lt;/goals&gt; &lt;/execution&gt; &lt;execution&gt; &lt;id&gt;cpd-check&lt;/id&gt; &lt;goals&gt; &lt;goal&gt;cpd-check&lt;/goal&gt; &lt;/goals&gt; &lt;/execution&gt; &lt;/executions&gt; &lt;/plugin&gt; &lt;/plugins&gt; &lt;/build&gt; &lt;reporting&gt; &lt;plugins&gt; &lt;plugin&gt; &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.maven.plugins&lt;/groupId&gt; &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-jxr-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt; &lt;version&gt;2.3&lt;/version&gt; &lt;/plugin&gt; &lt;/plugins&gt; &lt;/reporting&gt; </code></pre> <p>My Custom Ruleset file</p> <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt; &lt;ruleset&gt; &lt;rule ref="rulesets/logging-java.xml/SystemPrintln"&gt; &lt;priority&gt;3&lt;/priority&gt; &lt;/rule&gt; &lt;rule ref="rulesets/naming.xml/VariableNamingConventions"&gt; &lt;priority&gt;3&lt;/priority&gt; &lt;/rule&gt; &lt;rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/UseSingleton"&gt; &lt;priority&gt;3&lt;/priority&gt; &lt;/rule&gt; &lt;rule ref="rulesets/controversial.xml/UseConcurrentHashMap"&gt; &lt;priority&gt;3&lt;/priority&gt; &lt;/rule&gt; &lt;rule ref="rulesets/basic.xml/OverrideBothEqualsAndHashcode"&gt; &lt;priority&gt;3&lt;/priority&gt; &lt;/rule&gt; &lt;rule ref="rulesets/comments.xml/CommentRequired"&gt; &lt;priority&gt;3&lt;/priority&gt; &lt;/rule&gt; &lt;/ruleset&gt; </code></pre> <p>Here is my maven stacktrace</p> <pre><code> INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ net.sourceforge.pmd.RuleSetNotFoundException: Can't find resource rulesets/comments.xml. Make sure the resource is a valid file or URL or is on the CLASSPATH at net.sourceforge.pmd.util.ResourceLoader.loadResourceAsStream(ResourceLoader.java:28) at net.sourceforge.pmd.RuleSetFactory.parseRuleReferenceNode(RuleSetFactory.java:365) at net.sourceforge.pmd.RuleSetFactory.parseRuleNode(RuleSetFactory.java:255) at net.sourceforge.pmd.RuleSetFactory.parseRuleSetNode(RuleSetFactory.java:209) at net.sourceforge.pmd.RuleSetFactory.createRuleSet(RuleSetFactory.java:157) at net.sourceforge.pmd.RuleSetFactory.createRuleSet(RuleSetFactory.java:146) at org.apache.maven.plugin.pmd.PmdReport.generateReport(PmdReport.java:222) at org.apache.maven.plugin.pmd.PmdReport.execute(PmdReport.java:175) at org.apache.maven.plugin.pmd.PmdReport.executeReport(PmdReport.java:149) at org.apache.maven.reporting.AbstractMavenReport.generate(AbstractMavenReport.java:190) at org.apache.maven.reporting.AbstractMavenReport.execute(AbstractMavenReport.java:99) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:106) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:208) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.executeForkedExecutions(MojoExecutor.java:364) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:198) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:84) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:59) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.singleThreadedBuild(LifecycleStarter.java:183) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:161) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:318) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:153) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:555) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:214) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:158) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:290) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:230) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:414) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:357) </code></pre>
 

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