Sonar Installation and maven Configuration steps

Installation steps :

          
Step 1 :  Download and unzip the distribution.

                Do not install the application in a directory starting with a digit

Step 2 : Execute on Windows:

bin\windowsx8632\StartSonar.bat

or on other platforms:

bin/[OS]/sonar.sh console

Step 3 : Execute the following commands on your Maven projects:

mvn clean install mvn sonar:sonar

Step 4 : Browse to http://localhost:9000
Step 5 : For administration features, default login/password is admin/admin.

Configuring Sonar to Maven : 

Step 1 : Download and install maven 2.1 +

Step 2 : Edit the settings.xml file, located in $MAVEN_HOME/conf or ~/.m2, to set the database parameters to be used as well as the Sonar server URL.


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<settings >
    <profiles >
        <profile >
            <id>sonar</id >
            <activation >
                <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault >
            </activation >
            <properties >
                <!-- EXAMPLE FOR MYSQL -->
                <sonar.jdbc.url >
                  jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sonar?useUnicode=true&amp;characterEncoding=utf8
                </sonar.jdbc.url >
                <sonar.jdbc.driverClassName>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</sonar.jdbc.driverClassName >
                <sonar.jdbc.username>sonar</sonar.jdbc.username >
                <sonar.jdbc.password>sonar</sonar.jdbc.password >
 
                <!-- optional URL to server. Default value is http://localhost:9000 -->
                <sonar.host.url >
                  http://myserver:9000
                </sonar.host.url >
            </properties >
        </profile >
     </profiles >
</settings >

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Step 3 (Optional) : It is recommended to increase the Java heap memory. It avoids getting OutOfMemoryError failures. Set the MAVEN_OPTS environment variable:

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export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m"

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