Continues Inspection with SonarQube / Sonar plugins Part 4

Sonar Plugin Installation and Configuration for Eclipse IDE

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It is important to have at-least one project appearing in the SonarQube server's dashboard before staring this section.
(If you do not have projects in your SonarQube server, please follow the Part 2 - Continues Inspection With Sonar of this Article)

SonarLint Plugin

• This plugin is also available on the eclipse market place. 
• You can visit market place and drag/drop the "install" button to  your eclipse IDE. (It will start the installation process for you)

• Or else inside the eclipse IDE goto "Help" > "Eclipse Marketplace"

• Type "sonarlint" in the Find: section of the Eclipse Market place and hit enter. 
• When search result appears, click on the "Install" button.

• When "Confirm Selected Features screen" appears, select "SonarLint for Eclipse" and "SonarLint for Eclipse Java Configuration Helper" 
• Then click the Confirm button.

• When "Review Licence" screen appears select "I accept the terms of the license agreement" radio button and click on the Finish button.

• Eclipse will continue the SonarLint plugin installation.

• When it asks to restart the IDE to finish installation, allow it to do so.

• Once eclipse restarts, create a sample Java project and a sample project as shown below.

CoreJavaDemo (Project)

     |--MySonar (Package)

              |--HelloWorld.java (Class)

• Right click on the project and select "SonarLint" > "Bind to a SonarQube project"

• When "Bind Eclipse projects to SonarQube projects" screen opens, select Eclipse project (CoreJavaDemos) and Type a SonarQube project name (which is already existing in SonarQube Dashboard)

• If "Select a SonarQube server:" dropdown list does not have the localhost as a value, you should configure it with following values. To check whether the server is accessible, click on "Test server" button after providing the below details.

Server name : http://localhost:9000/

User : admin

Password : admin

• Finally goto "Window" > "Show View" and select "SonarLint Issues" view

• Now you SonarLint plugin will analyze the source-code which is being developed in the eclipse project and notify issues in real-time. (A Summary of issues will be displayed in SonarLint issues view)