~~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more ~~ contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with ~~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. ~~ The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 ~~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with ~~ the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at ~~ ~~ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 ~~ ~~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software ~~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, ~~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. ~~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and ~~ limitations under the License. ------ Usage ------ Usage To use the plugin, you've got two options: First of all, it can create a simple text file, called <<>>, with the plugins output. This is done by invoking the <<>> goal. You may also add a report to the generated site. This is your second option. *Writing the report to a text file To create a text file with the report, you need to run the <<>> goal. Add a section like the following to your POM: ------------------------------------------------------------------ ... org.codehaus.mojo rat-maven-plugin ... ------------------------------------------------------------------ Once you have done that, the plugin can be run from the command line by simply typing ------------------------------------------------------------------ mvn rat:check ------------------------------------------------------------------ An example for running the plugin automatically can be found {{{examples/verify.apt}here}}. *Adding the report to the generated site A section like the following must be added to your POM: ------------------------------------------------------------------ ... org.codehaus.mojo rat-maven-plugin ... ------------------------------------------------------------------ The report will be created automatically when you generate the site: ------------------------------------------------------------------ mvn site ------------------------------------------------------------------