Sonar Installation and Eclipse Plugin

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Sonar Installation

Download the sonar here http://dist.sonar.codehaus.org/sonar-3.5.1.zip  and unzip the download to your favorite folder

After Unzip you will see folder structure would look something like as follows.. 

Depends on your OS, you need to run the executable , for an instance if you are running linux-x86 and 64 bit, then you need to run start.sh

Figure 2 – Run Sonar

After you start the sonar you will see some info as follows after you run the sonar

Figure 3 - Sonar Console

Now you can browse your sonar installation http:localhost:9000

After we have the sonar installed, we can generate the reports for any maven project, by adding the following lines in your project pom.xml (sonar hosts in your properties section)

Figure 4 - POM XML for Sonar Generation

Let’s take an example of project-common; do the following steps

· Checkout the latest code from repository to your work space

· Do mvn clean install

· Modify your pom.xml (pom.xml) to have the following under properties section

· <sonar.host.url> http://localhost:9000/ </sonar.host.url>

· Save the file

· Do mvn sonar:sonar in your command / terminal

· You will see some messages as following.

Note: And after few minutes (depends on the size of the modules the sonar report would even take longer)

Finally you would see the following that indicates the sonar reporting is completed..

Now go to you http://localhost:9000 you would see the project report that you ran for

Figure 9 - Sonar Eclipse Plug-in Install (Market Place)

Go to Help > Install New Software... This should display the Install dialog box.

Paste the Update Site URL (http://dist.sonar-ide.codehaus.org/eclipse/) into the field Work with and press Enter. This should display the list of available plugins and components:

Choose Sonar Java, follow the steps and install the plugin

Note: Please make sure the project that you want to associate with sonar has already analyzed in your sonar installation

Configure your local/remote sonar in your Eclipse

Sonar Eclipse is pre-configured to access a local Sonar server listening on http://localhost:9000/. You can edit this server, delete it or add a new one.

Once the Sonar server is defined, the next step is to link your Eclipse projects with projects defined and analyzed on this Sonar server.

To do so, right-click on the project in the Project Explorer, and then Configure > Associate with Sonar...:

Figure 13 - Configure / Associate your Eclipse Project with Sonar

In the Sonar project text field, start typing the name of the project and select it in the list box:

Click Finish. Your project is now associated to one analyzed on your Sonar server.

Do local analysis and clean the violations

Figure 15 - Configure Modules

Figure 17.a – Set Sonar Analysis on Local Mode

Figure 17:b - Run Sonar Analysis on Local

Figure 18 - sonar violation analysis console

Figure 19 - Sonar violation analysis console II

Figure 20 - Sonar violations Markers