PMD 7.8.0-SNAPSHOT

Release date: 29-November-2024

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Getting started pages

Table of Contents

The following pages and posts are tagged with

Title	Type	Excerpt
Configuring rules	Page	Learn how to configure your rules directly from the ruleset XML.
Installation and basic CLI usage	Page	Sums up the first steps to set up a CLI installation and get started using PMD
Making rulesets	Page	A ruleset is an XML configuration file, which describes a collection of rules to be executed in a PMD run. PMD includes built-in rulesets to run quick analys...
Introduction to writing PMD rules	Page	Writing your own PMD rules