Apply checkstyle to custom checks

I am using the Maven Checkstyle plugin to apply Checkstyle to our code.

I have a custom configuration file packaged inside a Jar file and the 
Maven plugin is configured to depend on this jar file and hence pick up 
this custom config. This works fine.

However we now have some custom coded checks to extend Checkstyle. 
Currently these checks are being built and packaged into the same Jar file 
as the custom configuration file all as part of a single Maven jar 
project.

These custom checks work fine when applied to all other projects.

But we are having some trouble applying them to our custom coded checks. 
Basically the way Maven builds the project, it runs the Checkstyle check 
before it publishes the custom settings/checks jar to the local 
repository. This means that when the Checkstyle check is run, Maven picks 
up the latest version in the local repository, which will not match any 
changes we have just made. The end result is that our own custom checks 
are being checked against a configuration that is at least one version 
behind the latest.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to better structure this Maven 
project so that we can make changes to the custom config file, or the 
custom coded checks and have those changes be immediately applied to the 
same project in the very next build? Perhaps some kind of multi-module 
setup, or maybe delaying the "check" goal until later in the build life 
cycle?

We have not written any custom PMD checks, but if we did, this same 
problem would crop up there as well (ie. trying to apply custom PMD 
settings to your own PMD custom checks).

Thanks

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Craig Dickson
Software Engineering Manager
Behr Process Corporation
Santa Ana, California



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