Maven site reports

This article explains how to configure to generate reports with Maven plugins.

Requirements

• Maven must run on Java 8 or +
• You must use maven 3.6 or +

Principle

The objective is to generate a Maven SITE that summarize project status:

• Compilation report
• Dependencies checks: which ones are unused / missing
• Dependencies OWASP vulnerabilities checks
• Static code analysis with Checkstyle + PMD
• Javadoc
• Tests reports: surefire + Failsafe

Maven BUILD section

First of all, let configure the build settings. These plugins will always be executed if they are not in a particular profile.

Maven REPORTING section

Following configuration will only run on mvn site

Sources

Following links are very good tutorials:

• OpenClassrooms Maven