Maven check style as a part of the build

Question

Is there a possibility to somehow force maven to fail the build if there are some checkstyle errors? Now I have to run site goal to generate java

Answer 1

You need to bind checkstyle:check to a Maven lifecycle phase (e.g. validate ) and set failOnViolation to true.

Something like:

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-checkstyle-plugin
    2.9.1
    
        
        checkstyle
        validate
        
            check
        
        
            true