Thanks Wayne, I have downloaded and built the source for that plugin, but between asking the question and receiving your answer we implemented a workaround (the one suggested in the CheckStyle plugin documentation - creating a dedicated project for housing such config files).
Ricky. 2008/8/11 Wayne Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If the functionality is not there, then no one has ever asked for it > or the developers responsible for the plugin never needed it > themselves. In this case, I would assume that no one has ever asked > for in-line configuration of Checkstyle. > > You are welcome to add that functionality directly yourself (by > grabbing the plugin code from SVN and hacking it), or file a JIRA > issue and wait for someone else to add it for you. > > Wayne > > On 8/11/08, Ricky Clarkson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We have just added CheckStyle (and a few others) to our project root's > > pom.xml, and managed to configure findbugs, cobertura etc., within the > > pom.xml, but the plugin for CheckStyle doesn't appear to support such > inline > > configuration. We read about configuring CheckStyle for multi-module > > projects on Maven's site, and the suggested solution was to create a > > separate build-tools project. This is ok, but right now it would only be > > for the one CheckStyle config XML file, which seems overkill. Is there > > another solution, or a good reason why the CheckStyle plugin doesn't > support > > adding the configuration within pom.xml? > > > > Cheers, > > Ricky. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >