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- Mandatory plugins:
- Java [sonar-java-plugin]: to parse Java code source, compute metrics, etc.
- Squid [sonar-squid-java-plugin]: to compute additional metrics, check code against rules provided by the Sonar engine
- Optional plugins adding features from external tools:
- Checkstyle [sonar-checkstyle-plugin]: to check code against rules provided by Checkstyle
- FindBugs [sonar-findbugs-plugin]: to check code against rules provided by FindBugs
- PMD [sonar-pmd-plugin]: to check code against rules provided by PMD
- Surefire [sonar-surefire-plugin]: to execute unit tests with Surefire
- Cobertura [sonar-cobertura-plugin]: to get code coverage with Cobertura
- JaCoCo [sonar-jacoco-plugin]: to get code coverage with JaCoCo
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