Run FindBugs from your Eclipse RCP headless build

Running FindBugs from Eclipse RCP headless build is pretty much simple:

1. Add the following target to your customTargets.xml (replace "com.yourcompany" with your package/plug-in prefix):

    classname="edu.umd.cs.findbugs.anttask.FindBugsTask">

  
    home="${env.FINDBUGS_HOME}/lib"
    output="xml"
    failOnError="true" 
    jvmargs="-server -Xss1m -Xms512m -Xmx1024m" 
    includeFilter="${basedir}/findbugs-filter.xml" 
    outputFile="${buildDirectory}/findbugs.xml">

2. Create input filter file (findbugs-filter.xml):

3. Invoke "findbugs" target from the "prePackage" target:

 

4. Make sure environment variable FINDBUGS_HOME points to the installation of FindBugs.

5. (For Hudson users) Install, and configure FindBugs plug-in to get the fancy "bugs" trend graph :-)