How to make SonarQube module analyze the project only once when sonar analysis is bound to maven lifecycle in a multi-module project?

Question

What I am trying to achieve is integrate SonarQube analysis into the build process, so that whenever mvn clean install is run, the code is analyzed with SonarQu

Answer 1

IMO, this is just a Maven configuration issue, you're missing the <inherited>false</inherited> element on the execution of sonar:sonar:

                <!-- Run sonar analysis (preview mode) during verify phase. Cobertura reports need to be generated already -->
                <plugin>
                   <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                   <artifactId>sonar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                   <version>2.5</version>
                   <executions>
                        <execution>
                           <phase>verify</phase>
                           <goals>
                              <goal>sonar</goal>
                           </goals>
                           <inherited>false</inherited>
                        </execution>
                  </executions>
                </plugin>