Major Description
With format html, the pmd.xml seems not to be generated.
Consequently, check whether there are no failures fails.
This problem does not occur when format is pmd.
Below i showed my pom.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-pmd-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${versionPmdMvnPlugin}</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>net.sourceforge.pmd</groupId>
<artifactId>pmd-core</artifactId>
<version>${versionPmd}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>net.sourceforge.pmd</groupId>
<artifactId>pmd-java</artifactId>
<version>${versionPmd}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<configuration>
<linkXref>true</linkXref><!-- default -->
<sourceEncoding>${project.build.sourceEncoding}</sourceEncoding>
<minimumTokens>100</minimumTokens><!-- for cpd -->
<!--rulesets>
<ruleset>${maven.pmd.rulesetfiles}</ruleset>
</rulesets-->
<skipEmptyReport>false</skipEmptyReport>
<failOnViolation>false</failOnViolation>
<format>html</format>
<!--targetDirectory>target/</targetDirectory-->
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>check</goal>
<goal>cpd-check</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>