Compatibility Matrix

Installation

To install this plugin in the Eclipse IDE:

1. Go to Help > Install New Software... This should display the Install dialog box.
2. Paste the Update Site URL (http://dist.sonar-ide.codehaus.org/eclipse/) into the field Work with and press Enter. This should display the list of available plugins and components:
   
   
   
3. Check the component you wish to install.
4. Click Next. Eclipse will then check to see if there is any issue which would prevent a successful installation.
5. Click Finish to begin the installation process. Eclipse will then download and install the necessary components.
6. Once the installation process is finished, Eclipse will ask if you want to restart the IDE. It is strongly recommended that you restart the IDE.

If a previous version of Sonar Eclipse is already installed, you can update it. Go to Help > Check for Updates.

You are now ready to configure Sonar in Eclipse.

FAQ

Change Log

Release 3.0 (38 issues)
Type	Key	Summary	Priority
	SONARIDE-64	Show violations,which are not associated to a line but only to a file
	SONARIDE-182	Support C/C++ projects
	SONARIDE-101	Support non-java projects in Eclipse
	SONARIDE-293	Sonar Eclipse Plugin misses out on certain Findbugs Rules
	SONARIDE-292	checkstyle default encoding problem: Unexpected character 0xfffd in identifier
	SONARIDE-298	Allow to associate an eclipse project to a Sonar project whose key doesn't match the Maven "${groupId}:${artifactId}" format
	SONARIDE-295	"Find on Server" does not work for projects with branches
	SONARIDE-294	Findbugs analyses wrong binaries, if build-helper is used
	SONARIDE-339	Support Python/PyDev projects
	SONARIDE-338	Make it possible to select the Eclipse Problem level associated to Sonar violations
	SONARIDE-332	The Eclipse project icon/title (Label Decorator) should be decorated as soon as the Sonar nature is activated
	SONARIDE-330	Project branch is not being considered in Violations syncronization
	SONARIDE-335	nemo.sonarsource.org should not be part of the default pre-configured Sonar server
	SONARIDE-337	Remove the useless "Help" button available in the project association window
	SONARIDE-336	Add a new "Change project association" item in the "Sonar" project menu
	SONARIDE-334	Title is not displayed for some rules
	SONARIDE-311	Remove the ability to see the favourites metrics and to remove some of them from the Eclipse Preferences
	SONARIDE-319	Improve connection test mechanism
	SONARIDE-318	Support exclusion property defined at Sonar project level
	SONARIDE-316	Provide option to automatically activate the Sonar Nature when importing a Maven project with M2Eclipse
	SONARIDE-329	Highly improve the mechanism to link an Eclipse project to a Sonar remote project
	SONARIDE-328	NPE during loading measure even after fix of SONARIDE-191
	SONARIDE-326	Remove the useless Measures and Hotspots views as long as the Sonar perspective
	SONARIDE-325	NPE during 'Loading Measures'
	SONARIDE-287	Local analysis can not be performed on multiple projects in workspace
	SONARIDE-238	Use maven-bundle-plugin instead of maven-osgi-packaging-plugin:generate-bundle
	SONARIDE-236	Set the list of Sonar instance via Eclipse preferences or a plugin
	SONARIDE-275	Support Java 7
	SONARIDE-273	Don't ask credentials to browse Sonar server in Web View
	SONARIDE-269	Support extension rules during local analysis
	SONARIDE-268	Sonar Local analysis : no way to tune the Findbugs timeout threshold
	SONARIDE-205	Refactor the way to launch local Sonar analysis (use Sonar Runner and dryRun mode)
	SONARIDE-221	Classpath loader does not include project dependencies
	SONARIDE-209	Divide source code for tests and main source code
	SONARIDE-315	Neither able to see violations nor working on local analysis
	SONARIDE-308	RegExp Header flags up every file in the Eclipse plugin local run
	SONARIDE-331	Violation markers are differents bewteen remote and local mode
	SONARIDE-271	Issue during local analysis in conjunction with linked resources

Release 2.4.0 (17 issues)
Type	Key	Summary	Priority
	SONARIDE-309	Sonar plugin fails with Eclipse 3.7.2 / Mylyn 3.8
	SONARIDE-304	ArrayIndexOutOfBoundException when associating project with sonar
	SONARIDE-278	SONAR Eclipse Dashboard in Web View Not Visible
	SONARIDE-193	NPE - Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: "org.sonar.ide.eclipse.ui".
	SONARIDE-192	NPE during 'Loading hotspots'
	SONARIDE-191	NPE during 'Loading Measures'
	SONARIDE-122	Sonar server configured to force user authentication, but test connection always successful
	SONARIDE-301	Change the menu Sonar => Analyses... into Sonar => Mode
	SONARIDE-291	The "violations" view is always empty when the Eclipse project is linked to a Sonar project using the branch mechanism (sonar.branch property)
	SONARIDE-317	NullPointerException in the ServerLocationWizardPage.java source file at line 140
	SONARIDE-320	NPE if double-click multiple times on Hotspot view very quickly
	SONARIDE-290	NPE thrown by org.sonar.batch.components.RemoteProfileLoader.load during local analysis
	SONARIDE-258	When you define a Sonar Task Repository, credentials are not validated
	SONARIDE-245	When using branches, the resource cannot be reached from review editor
	SONARIDE-279	Allow to really remove the definitions of the "http://localhost:9000" and "http://nemo.sonarsource.org" default Sonar servers
	SONARIDE-277	Allow to query unassigned reviews
	SONARIDE-222	NPE when using a proxy and bad Sonar server URL

Release 2.3.0 (4 issues)
Type	Key	Summary	Priority
	SONARIDE-235	Ability to define any kind of query to request reviews
	SONARIDE-264	When reopening a "false-positive" review, it should be possible to define the assignee
	SONARIDE-261	Automatically populate context for task
	SONARIDE-274	Upgrade to Tycho 0.13.0

Release 2.2.0 (14 issues)
Type	Key	Summary	Priority
	SONARIDE-259	Bundle org.sonar.ide.eclipse.logback causes deadlock
	SONARIDE-225	If force authentication is set, running local analysis does not use authentication and fails.
	SONARIDE-246	NPE in SonarConnector during 'Open in Search'
	SONARIDE-228	Let the user create/edit some reviews directly from Eclipse
	SONARIDE-229	Let the user flag a violation as False-Positive directly from Eclipse
	SONARIDE-239	Upgrade to Tycho 0.12.0
	SONARIDE-234	Ability to comment a review directly from Eclipse
	SONARIDE-233	Ability to create a review directly from Eclipse
	SONARIDE-252	In local mode, the number of "Violations" is not the sum of all kind of violations (minor, major, ...)
	SONARIDE-250	Ability to resolve or reopen a review directly from Eclipse
	SONARIDE-256	NPE when opening a locally created file
	SONARIDE-255	Comments displayed without newlines
	SONARIDE-218	Color Codes in Sonar IDE doesn't match with those on Sonar Server
	SONARIDE-243	Description of license should be slightly corrected

Release 2.1.0 (7 issues)
Type	Key	Summary	Priority
	SONARIDE-42	Integration with Mylyn for reviews
	SONARIDE-227	Provide way to navigate from violation in source code to editor for review task
	SONARIDE-232	HTTP error 414 during loading measures
	SONARIDE-206	Show measures from local analysis in Measures View
	SONARIDE-216	sonar-findbugs-plugin creates files in temp directory, but not removes them after inspection
	SONARIDE-214	Update to Sonar 2.8
	SONARIDE-220	Regression: unable to delete violation marker from "quick fix"

Release 2.0.0 (11 issues)
Type	Key	Summary	Priority
	SONARIDE-148	Remove dependency on sonar-ide-commons
	SONARIDE-185	Flags not removed in Eclipse editor if all violations fixed
	SONARIDE-195	Being able to launch a local analysis of source code with a remote quality profile in order to refresh the "Violations" view
	SONARIDE-204	New extension point - ProjectConfigurator
	SONARIDE-202	Update to sonar-ws-client 2.7
	SONARIDE-203	Sonar Console
	SONARIDE-198	Use slf4j osgi bundle for logging
	SONARIDE-215	Proxy selection mechanism interfere with EGit
	SONARIDE-213	Internal error when running local analysis : NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.write(Ljava/io/File;Ljava/lang/CharSequence;)V
	SONARIDE-208	NPE in CompareWithSonarAction and in SonarReferenceProvider if resource not exists on server
	SONARIDE-207	Use mylyn to report bugs and enhancements

Release 1.0.0 (9 issues)
Type	Key	Summary	Priority
	SONARIDE-174	Ability to set the server url in prefs file
	SONARIDE-173	Measures and Web Views not linked with editor
	SONARIDE-172	The sub-title is too long in the "Measures view"
	SONARIDE-171	In "Associate with Sonar" action, add a "select/deselect all" button
	SONARIDE-164	Manage favourite metrics in the "Measures" View
	SONARIDE-169	Select the metric to be used to display hotspots from the favourite metrics
	SONARIDE-178	NPE in JavaElementsAdapterFactory
	SONARIDE-176	Create preference page "Favourite metrics"
	SONARIDE-175	Add tendency icons to "Measures" View

Release 0.3.0 (12 issues)
Type	Key	Summary	Priority
	SONARIDE-79	Use secure storage for storing passwords
	SONARIDE-147	Create HotSpots view
	SONARIDE-161	Improve the way to associate project with Sonar
	SONARIDE-159	Replace "Priority" by "Severity"
	SONARIDE-160	The content of the Views "Measures", "Hotspots" and "Web" must be always synchronized with current selection
	SONARIDE-158	When an error occurs, more contextual information must be provided in the error pop-up
	SONARIDE-162	Add filter "Non-Sonar projects" to Java Package Explorer and Project Explorer
	SONARIDE-167	Automatically refresh the "Violations" View when leaving the "Associate projects to Sonar" window
	SONARIDE-125	Run integration tests on real Sonar server
	SONARIDE-157	Plugin incompatible with Eclipse 3.4 because uses new FilteredTree constructor
	SONARIDE-110	Remove "Associate Project with Sonar" for configured project
	SONARIDE-71	Annotation should have icon