sonarqube - Which sonar-maven-plugin version to use?

Question

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

Answer 1

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).