PMD. PMD (with the humorous slogan “Don’t Shoot the Messenger”) is a “source code analyzer” that “finds common programming flaws” in a number of programming languages (including Java ...

PMD uses modular and extensible rule sets. Some of its rules reflect conventional wisdom, such as the rule that detects method names not conforming to normal practice.

As this screen snapshot indicates, disabling any type of finding (“rule”) in the PMD plugin is as simple as unchecking the box under “Enabled” for that particular rule.

Jenkins, CheckStyle, PMD and FindBugs. The FindBugs, PMD and CheckStyle Jenkins plugins have all been deprecated in favor of the Warnings Next Generation static code analysis report generation tool.