------ Upgrading PMD at Runtime ------ Andreas Dangel ------ 2017-08-19 ------ ~~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one ~~ or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file ~~ distributed with this work for additional information ~~ regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file ~~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the ~~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance ~~ with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at ~~ ~~ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 ~~ ~~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, ~~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an ~~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY ~~ KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the ~~ specific language governing permissions and limitations ~~ under the License. ~~ NOTE: For help with the syntax of this file, see: ~~ http://maven.apache.org/doxia/references/apt-format.html Upgrading PMD at Runtime The Maven PMD plugin comes with a default PMD version: for <<>>, PMD ${pmdVersion} is used by default. Given that the {{{https://pmd.github.io}newer PMD version}} is compatible, you can override the PMD version, that the Maven plugin will use and benefit from the latest bugfixes and enhancements: +-----+ ...choose your version... ... org.apache.maven.plugins maven-pmd-plugin ${project.version} net.sourceforge.pmd pmd-core \${pmdVersion} net.sourceforge.pmd pmd-java \${pmdVersion} net.sourceforge.pmd pmd-javascript \${pmdVersion} net.sourceforge.pmd pmd-jsp \${pmdVersion} ... +-----+