Prerequisites
To create a Sonar plugin, you need Java 6 or later. Maven is not required to build sources but it is highly recommended. Moreover this guide uses Maven to create and compile sources.
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compile and package the plugin.
Creating a New Plugin
The recommended way is to duplicate one of the examples located in the 'plugins' directory /plugins of this the following GitHub repository: https://github.com/SonarSource/sonar-examples. If you don't know which one must be used, then select the plugins/sonar-reference-plugin.
There are two ways to copy the example:
- if you have Git, then just clone the repository
- if you don't have Git, download the repository at https://github.com/SonarSource/sonar-examples/zipball/master
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Building and
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Deploying a Plugin
Simply execute:
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from the root directory, for example /path/to/sonar-reference-plugin. The JAR file is generated in the 'target' directory /target. It must be copied to the directory .
Then, copy the JAR to the '$SONAR_HOME/extensions/plugin of ' directory and restart your Sonar installation. The server must be restarted.
Next step is: coding a plugin.
