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PMD is an extensible multilanguage static code analyzer. It finds common programming flaws like unused variables,
empty catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth. It's mainly concerned with Java and
Apex, but supports 16 other languages. It comes with 400+ built-in rules. It can be
extended with custom rules. It uses JavaCC and Antlr to parse source files into abstract syntax trees
(AST) and runs rules against them to find violations. Rules can be written in Java or using a XPath query.
Currently, PMD supports Java, JavaScript, Salesforce.com Apex and Visualforce,
Kotlin, Swift, Modelica, PL/SQL, Apache Velocity, JSP, WSDL, Maven POM, HTML, XML and XSL.
Scala is supported, but there are currently no Scala rules available.
Additionally, it includes CPD, the copy-paste-detector. CPD finds duplicated code in
Coco, C/C++, C#, CSS, Dart, Fortran, Gherkin, Go, Groovy, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Julia, Kotlin,
Lua, Matlab, Modelica, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Salesforce.com Apex and
Visualforce, Scala, Swift, T-SQL, Typescript, Apache Velocity, WSDL, XML and XSL.
Download the latest binary zip from the releases
and extract it somewhere.
Execute bin/pmd check or bin\pmd.bat check.
See also Getting Started
Demo:
This shows how PMD analyses openjdk:
Demo
There are plugins for Maven and Gradle as well as for various IDEs.
See Tools / Integrations
Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.
Our latest source of PMD can be found on GitHub. Fork us!
For details, see How to contribute to PMD.
The rule designer is developed over at pmd/pmd-designer.
Please see its README for
developer documentation.
Become a financial contributor and help us sustain our community. Contribute
This project follows the all-contributors specification.
Contributions of any kind welcome!
See credits for the complete list.