Eclipse Plugin

Name	Eclipse Sonar Plugin
License	LGPL
Authors	Evgeny Mandrikov, Jérémie Lagarde
Latest version	0.1.0
Update site	http://dist.sonar-ide.codehaus.org/eclipse/
Eclipse Marketplace	http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-sonar-plugin
Jira	http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SONARIDE/component/14315
Sources	http://svn.codehaus.org/sonar-ide/trunk/eclipse

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Compatibility Matrix

Implementation Status

Current version - is a fully functional prototype to verify the basic concepts and implementation strategies.
Due to the prototype status future version will come with additional or modified features and may show different behavior in various situations. API is certainly not frozen yet. So, migration of configuration from version to version might not work.

Plugin	0.1.0	0.2.0
Sonar	2.0.1+	2.0.1+
Eclipse	compatible with 3.4.x, but works best on 3.5.1	3.5.x, 3.6.x
M2Eclipse (optional)	0.10.0+	0.10.0+

Installation

To install this plugin in the Eclipse IDE:

Select Help -> Install New Software. This should display the "Install" dialog.
Paste the Update Site URL into the field named "Work with:" and press Enter. Pressing Enter should cause Eclipse to update list of available plugins and components.
Choose the component listed under Sonar: "Sonar Integration for Eclipse (Required)".
If you use m2eclipse, then select component "Sonar Integration for M2Eclipse (Optional)" too.
Click Next. Eclipse will then check to see if there are any issues which would prevent a successful installation.
Click Finish to begin the installation process. Eclipse will then download and install the necessary components.
Once the installation process is finished, Eclipse will ask you if you want to restart the IDE. It's strongly recommended that you restart IDE.

This video demonstrates the process of installation.

Usage/Features

Global Configuration

In plugin configuration ( Window > Preferences > Sonar ) you can :

Select the default sonar server
Add, edit or remove a sonar server configuration

Server Configuration

In server configuration you can specify:

URL of your Sonar server
Username and password for access to it

Settings will be stored in file .serverlist in ${workspace}\.metadata\.plugins\org.sonar.ide.eclipse\ directory. Don't allow other people to see this file, since it contains your credentials in plain-text (see SONARIDE-79).

Project Configuration

In plugin configuration for project you can specify:

URL of your Sonar server
groupId, artifactId and branch of your project

Support for branches available since version 0.2

Network Configuration

Connection via proxy available since version 0.2

You can use network configuration page ( Preferences > General > Network Connections ) to specify proxy settings for plugin :

Integration with m2eclipse

Open any Mavenized project and some parameters (project.groupId, project.artifactId, sonar.branch) will be taken from pom.xml.

sonar.branch since 0.2

Option "Support multiple Maven modules mapped to a single Eclipse workspace project" doesn't supported.

Auto configure project without m2eclipse

Perspective

Sonar perspective allows you to concentrate on quality of code :

Violations

Open any Java-file and see violations from Sonar as markers in source code.

Source code from Sonar server may not match source code from your working copy, so we are using some heuristic algorithm to determine line with violation.

Duplications

Would be available in version 0.3 - see SONARIDE-61

Code coverage

Would be available in version 0.3 - see SONARIDE-60

Select In Sonar

At any time you can jump into the Sonar Web dashboard directly from the IDE to get more information not yet available in the plugin ( Sonar > Open in Sonar server ) :

Sonar Server Navigator

Sonar Server Navigator allows you to browse all available projects in a specified Sonar server :

TreeMap

See SONARIDE-114