PMD Integration with Weblogic Platform

[Chetan Raju]

I have installed Weblogic Platform edition 8.1 SP3 with Weblogic Server and Weblogic Workshop options. The installation is successful.

Now, I unzipped the PMD zip file. Copied all the jars under /lib folder of PMD to C:\bea\weblogic81\workshop\lib directory.

Now, I copied the PMD plugin for Weblogic workshop to the directory C:\bea\weblogic81\extensions;

Once I start the Weblogic Workshop, I get an exception as below

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/sourceforge/pmd/RuleSetFactory
at com.bearingpoint.bea.wlw.extensions.pmd.DefaultMenuGenerator.getRuleSets(DefaultMenuGenerator.java:124)
at com.bearingpoint.bea.wlw.extensions.pmd.DefaultMenuGenerator.populate(DefaultMenuGenerator.java:66)
at workshop.shell.commands.CmdManager.invokeGenerator(CmdManager.java:651)
at workshop.shell.commands.CmdManager.populateMenu(CmdManager.java:784)
at workshop.shell.commands.CmdManager.loadMainMenu(CmdManager.java:695)
at workshop.shell.commands.CmdManager.access$1100(CmdManager.java:38)
at workshop.shell.commands.CmdManager$RefreshUI.run(CmdManager.java:543)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:178)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:454)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:151)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:145)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:137)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:100)

Can anyone please help as to what is the problem. I tried setting the classpath to all the jars of PMD. Still it doesn't work. I found this particular Thread as appropriate to put my query.