How to add 3rd party jar in Eclipse PMD plugin.

[Suraj Jadhav]

Hi,

I wanted to use GDSSecurities's PMD (https://github.com/GDSSecurity/GDSPMDSECRULES) rule set for my development code. But those ruleset depends upon pmd-gds-1.0.jar which is GDS's custom jar. To resolve the jar dependency I have added pmd-gds-1.0.jar into my Eclipse's PMD plugin folder's lib directory. I also added the jar's details into MANIFEST.MF for PMD plugin under Bundle-ClassPath section. Following are the my environment details.

Eclipse Version: Helios Service Release 2 20110218-0911

PMD Plugin version: net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.plugin_3.2.6.v200903300643

MANIFEST.MF

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Export-Package: net.sourceforge.pmd,rulesets,net.sourceforge.pmd.eclip
 se.plugin,net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.runtime,net.sourceforge.pmd.ecl
 ipse.runtime.builder,net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.runtime.properties,n
 et.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.runtime.writer
Bundle-ActivationPolicy: lazy
Bundle-ClassPath: lib/asm-3.1.jar,lib/backport-util-concurrent.jar,lib
 /castor-1.1.2.1-xml.jar,lib/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar,lib/jaxen-1.1.1
 .jar,lib/junit.jar,lib/log4j-1.2.15.jar,lib/pmd14-4.2.5.jar,lib/retro
 weaver-rt-2.0.5.jar,lib/xercesImpl-2.6.2.jar,lib/xmlParserAPIs-2.6.2.
 jar,pmd-plugin.jar,lib/pmd-gds-1.0.jar,lib/*.*,.
Bundle-Name: %plugin.name
Bundle-Localization: plugin
Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment: J2SE-1.4
Require-Bundle: org.eclipse.core.resources,org.eclipse.core.runtime,or
 g.eclipse.jdt.core,org.eclipse.jface.text,org.eclipse.ui,org.eclipse.
 ui.editors,org.eclipse.ui.ide,org.eclipse.help
Bundle-Vendor: %plugin.provider
Bundle-Version: 3.2.6.v200903300643
Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
Bundle-Activator: net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.plugin.PMDPlugin
Bundle-SymbolicName: net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.plugin;singleton:=tru
 e

But whenever I tries to import the rule set I am getting following error.

!STACK 0
java.lang.RuntimeException: Couldn't find that class com.gdssecurity.pmd.rules.dfa.DfaSecurityRule
	at net.sourceforge.pmd.RuleSetFactory.parseRuleSetNode(RuleSetFactory.java:217)
	at net.sourceforge.pmd.RuleSetFactory.createSingleRuleSet(RuleSetFactory.java:135)
	at net.sourceforge.pmd.RuleSetFactory.createRuleSets(RuleSetFactory.java:85)
	at net.sourceforge.pmd.RuleSetFactory.createRuleSets(RuleSetFactory.java:70)
	at net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.preferences.RuleSetSelectionDialog.okPressed(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.Dialog.buttonPressed(Dialog.java:472)
	at org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.Dialog$2.widgetSelected(Dialog.java:624)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(TypedListener.java:234)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1053)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:4066)

I am not able to figure out that what is going wrong.

Any help is really appreciated. Thanks in advance.