Hi Naved,
Did you get any idea to get output in report format in Salesforce?

I have followed same as you mentioned in the blog.

but still i am getting below error.

Usage: pmd [options]
Options:
-failOnViolation, –failOnViolation
By default PMD exits with status 4 if violations are found. Disable this
option with ‘-failOnViolation false’ to exit with 0 instead and just write the
report.
Default: true
-auxclasspath
Specifies the classpath for libraries used by the source code. This is
used by the type resolution. Alternatively, a ‘file://’ URL to a text file
containing path elements on consecutive lines can be specified.
-benchmark, -b
Benchmark mode – output a benchmark report upon completion; default to
System.err.
Default: false
-cache
Specify the location of the cache file for incremental analysis. This
should be the full path to the file, including the desired file name (not just
the parent directory). If the file doesn’t exist, it will be created on the
first run. The file will be overwritten on each run with the most up-to-date
rule violations.
-dir, -d
Root directory for sources.
-encoding, -e
Specifies the character set encoding of the source code files PMD is
reading (i.e., UTF-8).
Default: UTF-8
-filelist
Path to a file containing a list of files to analyze.
-format, -f
Report format type.
Default: text
-help, -h, -H
Display help on usage.
Default: false
-ignorelist
Path to a file containing a list of files to ignore.
-language, -l
Specify a language PMD should use.
-minimumpriority, -min
Rule priority threshold; rules with lower priority than configured here
won’t be used. Valid values are integers between 1 and 5 (inclusive), with 5
being the lowest priority.
Default: 5
-no-cache
Explicitly disable incremental analysis. The ‘-cache’ option is ignored
if this switch is present in the command line.
Default: false
-norulesetcompatibility
Disable the ruleset compatibility filter. The filter is active by default
and tries automatically ‘fix’ old ruleset files with old rule names
Default: false
-property, -P
{name}={value}: Define a property for the report format.
Default: []
-reportfile, -r
Sends report output to a file; default to System.out.
* -rulesets, -R
Comma separated list of ruleset names to use.
-shortnames
Prints shortened filenames in the report.
Default: false
-showsuppressed
Report should show suppressed rule violations.
Default: false
-stress, -S
Performs a stress test.
Default: false
-suppressmarker
Specifies the string that marks a line which PMD should ignore; default
is NOPMD.
Default: NOPMD
-threads, -t
Sets the number of threads used by PMD.
Default: 1
-uri, -u
Database URI for sources.
-debug, -verbose, -D, -V
Debug mode.
Default: false
-version, -v
Specify version of a language PMD should use.

Mandatory arguments:
1) A java source code filename or directory
2) A report format
3) A ruleset filename or a comma-delimited string of ruleset filenames

For example:
C:\>pmd-bin-6.9.0\bin\pmd.bat -d c:\my\source\code -f html -R java-unusedcode

Languages and version suported:
apex, ecmascript, java, jsp, plsql, pom, vf, vm, wsdl, xml, xsl

Available report formats and their configuration properties are:
codeclimate: Code Climate integration.
csv: Comma-separated values tabular format.
problem – Include Problem column default: true
package – Include Package column default: true
file – Include File column default: true
priority – Include Priority column default: true
line – Include Line column default: true
desc – Include Description column default: true
ruleSet – Include Rule set column default: true
rule – Include Rule column default: true
emacs: GNU Emacs integration.
empty: Empty, nothing.
html: HTML format
linePrefix – Prefix for line number anchor in the source file.
linkPrefix – Path to HTML source.
ideaj: IntelliJ IDEA integration.
classAndMethodName – Class and Method name, pass ‘.method’ when processing a directory. default:
sourcePath – Source path. default:
fileName – File name. default:
summaryhtml: Summary HTML format.
linePrefix – Prefix for line number anchor in the source file.
linkPrefix – Path to HTML source.
text: Text format.
textcolor: Text format, with color support (requires ANSI console support, e.g. xterm, rxvt, etc.).
color – Enables colors with anything other than ‘false’ or ‘0’. default: yes
textpad: TextPad integration.
vbhtml: Vladimir Bossicard HTML format.
xml: XML format.
encoding – XML encoding format, defaults to UTF-8. default: UTF-8
xslt: XML with a XSL Transformation applied.
encoding – XML encoding format, defaults to UTF-8. default: UTF-8
xsltFilename – The XSLT file name.
yahtml: Yet Another HTML format.
outputDir – Output directory.

For example on windows:
C:\>pmd-bin-6.9.0\bin\pmd.bat -dir c:\my\source\code -format text -R rulesets/java/quickstart.xml -version 1.5 -language java -debug
C:\>pmd-bin-6.9.0\bin\pmd.bat -dir c:\my\source\code -f xml -rulesets rulesets/java/quickstart.xml,category/java/codestyle.xml -encoding UTF-8
C:\>pmd-bin-6.9.0\bin\pmd.bat -d c:\my\source\code -rulesets rulesets/java/quickstart.xml -auxclasspath lib\commons-collections.jar;lib\derby.jar
C:\>pmd-bin-6.9.0\bin\pmd.bat -d c:\my\source\code -f html -R rulesets/java/quickstart.xml -auxclasspath file:///C:/my/classpathfile

For example on *nix:
$ pmd-bin-6.9.0/bin/run.sh pmd -dir /home/workspace/src/main/java/code -f html -rulesets rulesets/java/quickstart.xml,category/java/codestyle.xml
$ pmd-bin-6.9.0/bin/run.sh pmd -d ./src/main/java/code -R rulesets/java/quickstart.xml -f xslt -property xsltFilename=my-own.xsl
$ pmd-bin-6.9.0/bin/run.sh pmd -d ./src/main/java/code -f html -R rulesets/java/quickstart.xml -auxclasspath commons-collections.jar:derby.jar

Can only specify option -format once.

Please suggest where i need to do change.

Thanks,

Jolly

The xml rules linked by the ruleset.xml are hosted by the PMD sourceforge web site, therefore you need to be connected to internet to run the tool. Moreover, to define any new rules you need a depp knowledge both of Java and the AST preprocessor

For instance, is there a ruleset that includes all the Apex complexity and style rules?

First of all your posts help me a lot,I have only one doubt how can you show example in a report.

First of all your posts help me a lot,I have only one doubt how can you show example in a report.

First, you need to install Java 1.7 or above and have it added to the PATH. Later, you need to download binary distribution and run pmd.bat from bin folder providing parameters described in the article.