POM Element for Source File Encoding

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The following classes and/or methods indicate usage of the JVM's default encoding and hence should be reviewed:

• String(byte[])
• String.getBytes()
• FileReader
• FileWriter
• PrintWriter(File)(new in JDK 5)
• PrintWriter(OutputStream)(new in JDK 5)
• InputStreamReader(InputStream)
• OutputStreamWriter(OutputStream)
• ReaderFactory.newPlatformReader()
• WriterFactory.newPlatformWriter()
• FileUtils.fileRead(String)
• FileUtils.fileRead(File)
• FileUtils.fileWrite(String, String)
• FileUtils.fileAppend(String, String)
• IOUtils.toString(InputStream)
• IOUtils.toString(InputStream, int)

Plugins to Modify

Build plugins are highlighted, since the impact of the change is more critical to the built artifact than reporting plugins. 

Affected Apache plugins:

• maven-changes-plugin (velocity template for announcement): MCHANGES-71, done in 2.1
• maven-checkstyle-plugin (source analysis): MCHECKSTYLE-95, done in 2.2
• maven-compiler-plugin (source processing): MCOMPILER-70, done in 2.1
• maven-invoker-plugin (beanshell script evaluation): MINVOKER-30, done in 1.2
• maven-javadoc-plugin (source processing): MJAVADOC-182, done in 2.5
• maven-jxr-plugin (source processing): JXR-60, done in 2.2
• maven-plugin-plugin (javadoc extraction, java source generation): MPLUGIN-101, MPLUGIN-100, done in 2.5
• maven-pmd-plugin (source analysis): MPMD-76, done in 2.4
• maven-resources-plugin (contents filtering): MRESOURCES-57, done in 2.3
• maven-site-plugin (apt sources): MSITE-314, done in 2.0-beta-7

Affected Codehaus plugins:

• findbugs-maven-plugin: (no Jira issue), done in 2.2
• jalopy-maven-plugin: MOJO-1138, done in 1.0-alpha-2-SNAPSHOT
• javancss-maven-plugin: MJNCSS-31
• modello-maven-plugin/modello-core (java source generation): MODELLO-109, done in 1.0-alpha-19
• native2ascii-maven-plugin
• plexus-component-metadata (formerly plexus-maven-plugin) (javadoc extraction): PLX-371, done in 1.0-beta-3.0.4
• shitty-maven-plugin (groovy script evaluation)
• simian-maven-plugin
• taglist-maven-plugin (javadoc extraction): MTAGLIST-27, done in 2.3

References

Please see [0] for the related thread from the mailing list, [1] for some further descriptions and [2] for a similar feature request in JIRA. Also note a related proposal for the output encoding of reports [3].

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