Hudson understands PMD analysis report XML format. When this option is configured you need to set up your build to run PMD in order to use this feature! This plug-in does not perform the actual analysis; it only displays useful information about analysis results, such as historical result trend, module and package statistics, web UI for viewing analysis reports and warnings, and so on.

Note: If you are using the maven-pmd-plugin to create the PMD analysis files please make sure to specify the pattern **/target/pmd.xml. Otherwise you will get a wrong warning count since the maven-pmd-plugin gererates two identical output files.