Which sonar-maven-plugin version to use

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I am wondering which sonar-maven-plugin in which version I should use.
As far as I know there is a org.codehaus.mojo version and two org.codehaus.sonar versions (sonar-maven3-plugin, sonar-maven-plugin).

As far as I understand the sonar-maven3-plugin is now deprecated and the org.codehaus.sonar:sonar-maven-plugin should be used instead. However those org.codehaus.sonar version are tied to a certain version of the sonar server, therefore it makes probably no sense to use them directly.
To be able to deal with this there is the org.codehaus.mojo:sonar-maven-plugin which checks which sonar version the server has and from there checks which org.codehaus.sonar:sonar-maven-plugin to use.

So in order to have a maven pom that is independent of the Sonar Server Version one should probably use the org.sonar.mojo:sonar-maven-plugin:RELEASE version to be safe.

Did I get this right?

Any further things to consider?

Thanks

Best Answer

As described in the documentation page (see "Project analyzed with Maven 3"), the plugin you have to use is org.codehaus.mojo:sonar-maven-plugin, not the internal one(s).

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