Problems with FindBugs exclude filter

Question

I am in the process of evaluating FindBugs and am trying to make use of the excludeFilter so that the tool does not process the test packages or the generated ejb stubs.

Answer 1

My findbugs exclude file was not working as above. I'm using the findbugs-maven-plugin v3.0.0. To resolve the issue I ran a build which generated findbugsXml.xml, then issued:

mvn findbugs:gui

This starts the User Interface to findbugs. I then loaded the findbugsXml.xml file, navigated to the warnings I desired excluded, excluded them and then saved the exclusions to findbugs_exclude.xml. I added this to the maven plugin as

findbugs_exclude.xml

The generated file works and the exclusions are truly omitted from the findbugs report.

Another great tip I found for the maven plugin was to add:

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