Hi, Sonar is a project hosted at Codehaus[1]. To make it quick, it's an advanced dashboard of code analysis metrics.
It's composed of a web application - connected to a database - and a maven plugin, in charge of executing analysis plugins like JavaNcss, Checkstyle or Cobertura. This maven plugin is only a bootstrapper, it downloads sonar plugins from the server then executes them. Measures are consolidated and published on server-side. The current maven id is org.codehaus.sonar:sonar-maven-plugin. Integrate the maven plugin to the mojo project would make sonar installation easier. And it would be also a good complement to current reporting mojos, particularly maven dashboard [2]. All the more reason that they're not direct competitors. They don't apply to the same enterprise environments. If it's accepted a mojo-comptatible version of sources [3] will be published (maven documentation, package). Regards, Simon SonarSource.com Twitter : SonarSource / SimonBrandhof [1] http://sonar.codehaus.org [2] http://mojo.codehaus.org/dashboard-maven-plugin/ [3] http://svn.codehaus.org/sonar/trunk/sonar-maven-plugin
