##### Overview

- Download PMD 5.0.4
- What's new in PMD 5.0.4
- PMD in the news
- PMD-related products and books
- Best practices
- Future directions
- Similar projects
- Credits
- License
- What does 'PMD' mean?

##### Usage

- Installation
- Command line usage
- Ant task usage
- Maven plugin usage
- Mvn plugin usage
- IDE plugin usage
- Suppressing warnings
- Finding duplicated code
- JSP support

##### Customizing PMD

- Compiling PMD
- How to write a rule
- Writing XPath rules
- How to make a rule set
- How it works
- Rule guidelines
- PMD developers information
- PMD Release Process

##### For example

- Run PMD on a Sourceforge project

##### Misc.

- XPath tutorial (Gregorian)

##### Rule Sets

- ecmascript
  - Basic Ecmascript
  - Braces
  - Unnecessary
- java
  - Android
  - Basic
  - Braces
  - Clone Implementation
  - Code Size
  - Comments
  - Controversial
  - Coupling
  - Design
  - Empty Code
  - Finalizer
  - Import Statements
  - J2EE
  - JavaBeans
  - JUnit
  - Jakarta Commons Logging
  - Java Logging
  - Migration
  - Naming
  - Optimization
  - Strict Exceptions
  - String and StringBuffer
  - Security Code Guidelines
  - Type Resolution
  - Unnecessary
  - Unused Code
- jsp
  - Basic JSF
  - Basic JSP
- xml
  - Basic XML
- xsl
  - XPath in XSL

##### Project Documentation

- Project Information
  - Project Summary
  - Dependencies
  - Project Team
  - Mailing Lists
  - Continuous Integration
  - Issue Tracking
  - Project License
  - Source Repository
- Project Reports

## Project Summary

### Project Information

Field | Value
--- | ---
Name | PMD
Description | <p>PMD scans Java source code and looks for potential problems like:</p> <ul> <li>Possible bugs - empty try/catch/finally/switch statements</li> <li>Dead code - unused local variables, parameters and private methods</li> <li>Suboptimal code - wasteful String/StringBuffer usage</li> <li>Overcomplicated expressions - unnecessary if statements, for loops that could be while loops</li> <li>Duplicate code - copied/pasted code means copied/pasted bugs</li> </ul> <p>You can <b><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=56262">download everything from here</a></b>, and you can get an overview of all the rules at the <a href="rules/index.html">rulesets index</a> page.</p> <p>PMD is <a href="integrations.html">integrated</a> with JDeveloper, Eclipse, JEdit, JBuilder, BlueJ, CodeGuide, NetBeans/Sun Java Studio Enterprise/Creator, IntelliJ IDEA, TextPad, Maven, Ant, Gel, JCreator, and Emacs.</p>
Homepage | http://pmd.sourceforge.net/

### Project Organization

Field | Value
--- | ---
Name | InfoEther
URL | http://pmd.sourceforge.net/

### Build Information

Field | Value
--- | ---
GroupId | net.sourceforge.pmd
ArtifactId | pmd
Version | 5.0.4
Type | jar
JDK Rev | 1.5