PMD Rules

Although most rules defined in PMD are enabled, there are a few exceptions that are ignored:

• DontImportSun: There are some valid occurrences that sun libraries are needed in a large application.
• MoreThanOneLogger: There will be occasions that another logger will be needed, a good one would be to separate fine level debug messages, the main debug log and business audit logs.

Some rules are removed to simplify development.

• AtLeastOneConstructor as adding a constructor that does not do anything more than the default just adds unnecessary code.
• AvoidFinalLocalVariable as there is no valid reason not to use final local variables.
• AvoidInstantiatingObjectsInLoops generally there will be a lot of code that will instantiate objects in the loops. A very common case would be new String[0] when doing a toArray() operation.
• AvoidLiteralsInIfCondition by doing this rule blindly we will be introducing more constants that can be useless especially during string manipulations.
• DataflowAnomalyAnalysis
• OnlyOneReturn there are many cases where multiple return is valid especially common would be in the begining where simple cases can be handled and control gets returned back to the caller as soon as possible, otherwise there may be too much conditional logic that would be added further.
• TooManyStaticImports when using Eclipse to organize imports, this is bound to happen.