Going Java 1.5 With Maven2-Based Project
I recently made some simple updates to Wish by using Java 1.5 generics and autoboxing/unboxing. Making Java source changes was the easy part, while the time consuming part was on hunting for information on Maven-related changes.
I started by changing maven-compiler-plugin source and target in pom.xml:
<build>
<plugins>
...
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.5</source>
<target>1.5</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
</build>
And got this error upon running mvn site
Caused by: net.sourceforge.pmd.ast.ParseException: Can't use generics unless running in JDK 1.5 mode!
which led me to change maven-pmd-plugin targetJdk:
<reporting>
<plugins>
...
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-pmd-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<targetJdk>1.5</targetJdk>
</configuration>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
</reporting>
Then I found out that the angle brackets used by generics syntax resulted in checkstyle errors:
<' is not preceded with whitespace. error <;' is not followed by whitespace. error '>' is not preceded with whitespace.
which is fixed by adding these modules to checkstyle.xml .
If you don’t already have any existing checkstyle rules, create checkstyle.xml file and place it on the root directory of the project (i.e. same place as pom.xml) and add configLocation to maven-checkstyle-plugin:
<reporting>
<plugins>
...
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<configLocation>checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
</configuration>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
</reporting>
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Very useful.. if I could make it to work !
I probably missed somthing. I have a specific checkstyle file and I put the new modules this way inside the treewalker module :
<module name=”NoWhitespaceAfter”>
<!– Default tokens and additional GENERIC_START –>
<property name=”tokens” value=”ARRAY_INIT, BNOT, DEC, DOT, INC, LNOT,
UNARY_MINUS, UNARY_PLUS, GENERIC_START”/>
</module>
<module name=”NoWhitespaceBefore”>
<!– Default tokens and additional GENERIC_START and GENERIC_END –>
<property name=”tokens” value=”SEMI, POST_DEC, POST_INC,
GENERIC_START, GENERIC_END”/>
</module>
<module name=”WhitespaceAfter”>
<!– Default tokens and additional GENERIC_END –>
<property name=”tokens” value=”COMMA, SEMI, TYPECAST, GENERIC_END”/>
</module>
<module name=”WhitespaceAround”>
<!– Default tokens without GENERIC_START and GENERIC_END –>
<property name=”tokens” value=”ASSIGN, BAND, BAND_ASSIGN, BOR,
BOR_ASSIGN, BSR, BSR_ASSIGN, BXOR, BXOR_ASSIGN, COLON, DIV,
DIV_ASSIGN, EQUAL, GE, GT, LAND, LCURLY, LE, LITERAL_ASSERT,
LITERAL_CATCH, LITERAL_DO, LITERAL_ELSE, LITERAL_FINALLY,
LITERAL_FOR, LITERAL_IF, LITERAL_RETURN, LITERAL_SYNCHRONIZED,
LITERAL_TRY, LITERAL_WHILE, LOR, LT, MINUS, MINUS_ASSIGN, MOD,
MOD_ASSIGN, NOT_EQUAL, PLUS, PLUS_ASSIGN, QUESTION, RCURLY, SL,
SLIST, SL_ASSIGN, SR, SR_ASSIGN, STAR, STAR_ASSIGN,
TYPE_EXTENSION_AND, WILDCARD_TYPE”/>
</module>
It continues reporting errors for missing spaces before and after < and > in generics. Any idea about what I am doing wrong ?
Man, thanks a bunch :) You saved my backside!
Thanks for the tip – saved me a lot of trouble. Tip for pys: remove the existing NoWhitespaceAfter, NoWhitespaceBefore, WhitespaceAfter and WhitespaceAround modules from your checkstyle file. They probably override the new settings that you added. It should work after you do that.
Thanks, it just be very useful for me.
Thanks … works really well for me.
Tip for phn and pys: The genric-tokens are not valid token parameters for the checks “NoWhitespaceAfter”, “NoWhitespaceBefore” and “WhitespaceAfter”, they are simply ignored.
I’m having trouble with the
Any ideas if it is related to the nowhistespaceafter modules? I’ve tried changing the code around a bit but nothing is changing yet.
Weird, it didn’t show the code. I’m having issues with the whitespacearound module. The whole block of code just gives me some messed up error.
I am getting this error when using ‘jspc-maven-plugin’ I run maven Install.
C:/WorkSpace/msp-operations/build/WEB-INF/jsp/user/assignClients.jsp(2,0) File “/msp.tld” not found
The path for msp.tld is specified in the web.xml file which i am not able to refer.
thus can u please help me how to refer this .
Got rid of the annoying build warnings for PMD. Thanks!
Maven is something which is a tool difficult to understand, but once you understand it becomes the best thing that happened to Java.
thanks,Very effective
Very useful tip. Thanks