From: Bill Shannon <bill.shannon_at_sun.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:51:36 -0800

I have a maven project with subprojects. I want to run FindBugs on
only one of the subprojects so I configured the findbugs-maven-plugin
in the pom.xml for that subproject.

When I run "mvn findbugs:findbugs" from the top level project, it
runs FindBugs 1.2.1.

When I run it from the subproject, first it downloads *everything*.
Then it actually uses FindBugs 1.3.7!

Why all the extra downloads, and why the different behavior in the
subproject?

Here's the changes I made to the subproject pom.xml:

              <plugin>
                  <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                  <artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
- <version>2.0</version>
+ <version>2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
                  <configuration>
                      <threshold>Normal</threshold>
                  </configuration>
              </plugin>
          </plugins>
      </reporting>
+
+ <pluginRepositories>
+ <!-- Repository for the SNAPSHOT version of findbugs plugin -->
+ <pluginRepository>
+ <id>codehaus-snapshot-repository</id>
+ <url>http://snapshots.repository.codehaus.org/</url>
+ <snapshots>
+ <updatePolicy>daily</updatePolicy>
+ </snapshots>
+ </pluginRepository>
+ </pluginRepositories>
  </project>