PMD is a source code analyzer. It finds common programming flaws like unused variables, empty catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth. It supports Java, JavaScript, XML, XSL. Additionally it includes CPD, the copy-paste-detector. CPD finds duplicated code in Java, C, C++, C#, PHP, Ruby, Fortran, JavaScript.

Our latest source of PMD can be found on GitHub. Fork us!

Simply use maven in the top-level directory:

mvn clean package

This will create the zip files in the directory pmd-dist/target:

cd pmd-dist/target
ls *.zip

That's all !

We are using Sourceforge for bug tracking. Please file your bugs at https://sourceforge.net/p/pmd/bugs/.

Pull requests are always welcome: https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pulls

More information can be found on our Website and on SourceForge.