What is sonar Delphi Plugin ? How to use it?

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I am using Delphi 7. I am trying to use Sonar Delphi Plgin, and I have confused what are the things I need to follow, could anybody guide me through Sonar Delphi usage i.e. installation and how to use it.

If possible pl provide the link, coz I have gone through the link below, but it gives me only jar file:

http://docs.codehaus.org/display/SONAR/Delphi+Plugin

And confused with one more link:

http://sonar.15.n6.nabble.com/sonar-dev-VOTE-Delphi-plugin-td4523726.html

Here is the following link for Sonar runner:

http://docs.codehaus.org/display/SONAR/Installing+and+Configuring+Sonar+Runner

It tries to ensure software quality for you. **CPD (code duplication, how many lines, block and in how many files), “Dead” code recognition, Unused files recognition** is what I might be interested in. Thank you for the question. I'll share my experience with you, when I install it and use it on my project. — Ali Avcı, Dec 17 '12 at 07:46
I don't understand you. When I go to http://docs.codehaus.org/display/SONAR/Delphi+Plugin I see lots of documentation and an example project. Did you try that? — David Heffernan, Dec 17 '12 at 09:24
There I have already gone through, I didn't get what has to be done with downloaded .jar file and how to make a setup. In update center, there I didn't find anythinfor installtion. — Vishal Tiwari, Dec 17 '12 at 10:03
Have a look at: http://blogs.embarcadero.com/miguelangeloliver/2012/11/22/installing-sonar-for-delphi/ its a nice step by step guide. — Tobias R, Dec 17 '12 at 10:49
It's all there on the SONAR site. Did you install SONAR yet? Did you read the instructions on how to do that? — David Heffernan, Dec 17 '12 at 10:54

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 04 '15 at 15:56

Based off of recent memory of getting this working.

Ensure Java 6 SDK installed (Delphi addon doesn't work with Java 7)
Download the Sonar application: http://www.sonarsource.org/downloads/
Install Sonar
Run Sonar (StartSonar.bat)
Once logged on (default user/pass is admin) install the Delphi add-on via the Update Center list of Available Plugins. See: http://docs.sonarqube.org/display/SONAR/Update+Center
Grab the example project files from the Github repository: https://github.com/SonarSource/sonar-examples/tree/master/projects/languages There's a Delphi sample in there demonstrating how to configure a sonar-project.properties file that points to your source code directories.
After setting the SONAR_RUNNER_HOME environment variable, exec 'sonar-runner' in the folder with your configured properties file to have Sonar parse through the Delphi project files.

I plan to go back to play with this, but it failed to process most of the code I threw at it so I walked away a bit disappointed. It seems like a pretty cool system.

"it failed to process most of the code I threw at it" sounds pretty much like a show stopper — David Heffernan, Dec 18 '12 at 07:54
Looking at Sonar again - few steps to install online https://github.com/darianmiller/devmachine/wiki/Install-Sonar — Darian Miller, May 30 '13 at 03:36
So far so good this time around - Sonar exclusions prevent duplicate source found in __History files causing havoc. — Darian Miller, Jun 03 '13 at 02:33

What is sonar Delphi Plugin ? How to use it?

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