Findbugs and Maven 3.x - maven

Question

Has anyone managed to get findbugs 2.3.1, 2.3.2-SNAPSHOT or 2.4-SNAPSHOT to work with a Maven 3.x project?
I always end up with:
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal
org.codehaus.mojo:findbugs-maven-plugin:2.4-SNAPSHOT:findbugs
(default-cli) on project cular-db: An
error has occurred in FindBugs Report
report generation. Could not find
matching constructor for:
org.codehaus.mojo.findbugs.FindbugsReportGenerator(org.codehaus.doxia.module.xhtml.XhtmlSink,
java.util.PropertyResourceBundle,
java.io.File,
org.apache.maven.doxia.tools.DefaultSiteTool)
I tried all the latest possible versions. It does not matter if I use findbugs:fingbugs or only the site goal. It is specified with
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${findbugs.version}</version>
<configuration>
<threshold>High</threshold>
<effort>Default</effort>
</configuration>
</plugin>

Answer 1

On 2011/03/20, Findbugs 2.3.2 was been released, with Maven 3 support.
Announcement
Release Notes
This means that you should be able to use the latest non-snapshot version of the plugin (version 2.3.2 or later) with Maven 3.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.2</version>
</plugin>

Answer 2

As I said in the comment you should use findbugs version 2.3.2-SNAPSHOT with Maven 3. I started a project with using maven-quickstart-archetype and executed mvn findbugs:findbugs and the reports are generated successfully without any problems.
[INFO] ****** FindBugsMojo execute *******
[INFO] Inside canGenerateReport..... false
[INFO] Inside canGenerateReport..... skip false, classFilesDirectory.exists() true
[INFO] canGenerate is true
[INFO] ****** FindBugsMojo executeReport *******
[INFO] Temp File is /home/umut/noinstall/dummy/target/findbugsTemp.xml
[INFO] Fork Value is true
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 2:56.550s
[INFO] Finished at: Mon Jan 10 11:05:13 PST 2011
[INFO] Final Memory: 9M/55M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
The following is the my pom.xml.
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.dummy</groupId>
<artifactId>dummy</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>dummy</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>codehaus.snapshots</id>
<url>http://snapshots.repository.codehaus.org</url>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
<configuration>
<threshold>High</threshold>
<effort>Default</effort>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
BTW you are right it is not working with 2.3.1 but I did not try 2.4-SNAPSHOT.

Answer 3

Just a short note for anyone with the same problem: My experience is that it does work with 2.3.2-SNAPSHOT but not with 2.4-SNAPSHOT. (2.4-SNAPSHOT causes the same error.)