[MPMD-197] Update dependencies and resolve minor Java warnings

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.3
• Fix Version/s: 3.4
• Component/s: PMD
• Assignee: Michael Osipov
• Reporter: Jeremy Landis
• Created: 30/Nov/14 13:52
• Updated: 30/Nov/14 15:14
• Resolved: 30/Nov/14 15:14

Description

Bring various dependencies in pmd plugin current to more recent changes in the maven ecosystem.

maven-site-plugin to 3.4
maven-plugin-testing-harness to 1.3
animal-sniffer-maven-plugin to 1.12
java16 signature to 1.1
plexus-utils to 3.0.21

remove modello-maven-plugin version as it is overriding parent unnecessarily.

Update maven-plugins parent to 27 and remove maven-compiler-plugin and TODO as it is part of this updated parent.

Remove unnecessary 'unchecked' suppress warnings, add java 6 requested @Overrides, and give types to lists.