Not able to install PMD in Eclipse Kepler

Question

I have installed PMD in Eclipse Kepler using Eclipse market place. But I am unable to access it after the installation.

When I go to Window → Preferences and search for PMD, I get no results.

Is there any other plugin available for source code cleanup?
Or: What needs to be done to install PMD in Kepler?

Thanks

Answer 1

I found the PMD plugin that installs through Eclipse Marketplace to be harder to use than the standalone one. Install available by an Eclipse update site here.

Answer 2

I've tried all these suggestions and now i have it working in Kepler; here's how to do it: I made sure my Eclipse Kepler instance was using Java 7--it was.

The link from the eclipse marketplace did not work. It would show a PMD option for the individual projects properties, but there were no rules to select from. Also the main workspace preferences were not showing up.

I had to install it using this update site, as Jeanne Boyarsky mentioned:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pmd/files/pmd-eclipse/update-site/

Restart Kepler.

The PMD option now shows up in the Windows->Preferences->PMD

The PMD project menu now shows up when right clicking on the project.

Answer 3

The install information on the web site for this plugin http://acanda.github.io/eclipse-pmd/getting-started.html says you must open the Properties for a project and look at the PMD tab.

Answer 4

If you've installed the PMD plug-in using the Eclipse market place then you're using eclipse-pmd which requires Eclipse to run on a JVM version 7 or later. If you're running Eclipse on a JVM version 6 or earlier and you're using eclipse-pmd 0.7 or earlier the PMD property page won't be visible.

To solve this problem you have to run Eclipse on a JVM version 7 or later. To change the JVM on which Eclipse runs you have to set the parameter -vm in your eclipse.ini accordingly. The Eclipse Wiki explains how to specify the JVM.