'PMD' properties page is not shown about eclipse-pmd HOT 8 CLOSED

I couldn't reproduce the problem with eclipse-pmd 0.7 on Eclipse Kepler for Java Developers (Linux 32bit) running on Ubuntu 12.04.
Please check if you're looking for the PMD page in the project properties dialog and not in the Eclipse preferences. It should look like this:

In the Eclipse preferences you should also see the settings for the PMD annotations if eclipse-pmd is installed correctly:

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I have tried it again, with a fresh eclipse kepler installation and a fresh workspace. Installation runs without errors, and eclipse installation details indicate that the plugin is installed. However, still no PMD properties page (in project properties) and no "PMD Violations" annotation in the editor configuration.
Also tried eclipse indigo and eclipse kepler under windows but still the same result.

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If you can zip up both your Windows Eclipse installation and the workspace with the project, upload it to Dropbox or some other cloud drive and send me the link, I'll take a look and try to find the problem.

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Same issue is occurring on mac. Fresh 64bit J2EE install (on a mac I just recieved two days ago). http://www.mediafire.com/download/pishyvl7jz681xn/pmd-nonfunct-example-mac.tar.bz2

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Thank you for uploading your Eclipse installation, Jon. It helped me to reproduce the problem: if you use a JRE version 6 or older to run Eclipse then eclipse-pmd won't be available as it requires a JRE 7 to run.

You can check the JRE version by opening the installation details (in Eclipse: Help > Installation Details > Configuration) and looking for the entry java.version. If its value is not '1.7.0_xx' then you should specify your Eclipse installation to run with a JRE 1.7.

Please let me know if this fixes the issue.

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Ugh, a lack of out-of-the-box support for mac is pretty bad. What about 7 do we need to run this? Could you recompile in 6?

Also, why does this install ok on JRE6? No warning/errors to the front end?

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Using JRE 1.7 solved the problem for me. However, support for older JREs, at least for 1.6, would be good.

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Unfortunately it is not possible to recompile eclipse-pmd for Java 6 as it uses the Java 7 API. Rewriting those parts to be Java 6 compatible would be a major effort. Since Java 6 has reached its end of life almost a year ago and a JRE 7 has been available for all major platforms for over two years the JRE 7 requirement will not be changed.

As Eclipse happily installs plug-ins that will not run due to their runtime requirements, eclipse-pmd (v0.8+) will show a message on the PMD property page explaining the situation and how to resolve it.

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