FindBugs report sample pom.xml

To generate findbugs report in xml and automatically convert it to html representation just use following plugin in the <build> section of pom.xml
No special goals (like mvn site:site) needed. Works fine with mvn clean install

<plugin>

<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>findbug</id>
<phase>verify</phase>
<goals>
<goal>check</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<findbugsXmlOutputDirectory>
${project.build.directory}/findbugs
</findbugsXmlOutputDirectory>
<failOnError>false</failOnError>
</configuration>
</plugin>

<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>xml-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>verify</phase>
<goals>
<goal>transform</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<transformationSets>
<transformationSet>
<dir>${project.build.directory}/findbugs</dir>
<outputDir>${project.build.directory}/findbugs</outputDir>
<stylesheet>fancy-hist.xsl</stylesheet>
<!--<stylesheet>default.xsl</stylesheet> -->
<!--<stylesheet>plain.xsl</stylesheet> -->
<!--<stylesheet>fancy.xsl</stylesheet> -->
<!--<stylesheet>summary.xsl</stylesheet> -->
<fileMappers>
<fileMapper
implementation="org.codehaus.plexus.components.io.filemappers.FileExtensionMapper">
<targetExtension>.html</targetExtension>
</fileMapper>
</fileMappers>
</transformationSet>
</transformationSets>
</configuration>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
<artifactId>findbugs</artifactId>
<version>2.0.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>