Maven checkstyle use wrong style - maven

Question

I have the following configuration in my pom.xml:
<reporting>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.17</version>
<configuration>
<configLocation>google_checks.xml</configLocation>
<failOnViolation>true</failOnViolation>
<enableFilesSummary>false</enableFilesSummary>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</reporting>
It is set to use the Google coding style, however is use the sun_checks.xml file (which is the default for this plugin):
mvn checkstyle:check | grep sun
[INFO] There are 913 errors reported by Checkstyle 8.19 with sun_checks.xml ruleset.
What is wrong in my POM configuration?
Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

The configuration should be in <build> and not in <reporting>:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.17</version>
<configuration>
<configLocation>google_checks.xml</configLocation>
<encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
<consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
<failsOnError>true</failsOnError>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>validate</id>
<phase>validate</phase>
<goals>
<goal>check</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>