my production build and eclispe IDE is very happy about the syntax during
compilation
I ended up refactor the code to make PMD happy
-Dan
On 1/26/06, jason r tibbetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Dan,
>
> > Folks my problem is PMD not the plugin, but I ask anyway here
> >
> > Here is the error:
> > =============
> >
> >
> > [INFO] Error during report generation
> >
> > Embedded error: Failure executing PMD for:
> > ......\ui\internal\launcher\configuration\PreferencePageHistory.java
> > Encountered "abstract" at line 151, column 17.
> > Was expecting one of:
> > "}" ...
> > "final" ...
> > "@" ...
> > "boolean" ...
> > "char" ...
> > "byte" ...
> >
> > It turns out the code has a abstract define inside a method
> >
> >
> >
> > public ToolBar createHistoryControls(ToolBar historyBar,
> > ToolBarManager manager) {
> >
> > historyToolbar = manager;
> > /**
> > * Superclass of the two for-/backward actions for the history.
> > */
> > abstract class HistoryNavigationAction extends Action implements
> > IMenuCreator {
> > private Menu lastMenu;
> >
> > Advice is greatly appreciated.
>
> This isn't a PMD problem; it's a Java syntax problem. PMD uses JavaCC to
> parse Java files (see
> http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/02/12/static_analysis.html), and
> JavaCC is complaining about your syntax. If you attempt to compile the
> file without first running it through PMD, you should get a compiler
> error, right?
>
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