1. Build the project running mvn clean install.
2. Go to target directory. Copy svs-sonar-java-rules-<version>.jar into $SONARQUBE_HONE/extensions/plugins.
3. Restart SonarQube server.
4. Goto http://localhost:9000/profiles and make sure profile 'SVS Code Convention Rules' is exists and active.

Useful links to start from: *SonarQube platform documentation *Developer documentation *Plugin example sources *Sonar Java plugin sources *SonarQube sources *SonarQube google group

Suppose that:

• Your SonarQube server is running on SERVER_ADDRESS=http://localhost:9000.
• SonarQube uses MySQL database accessible via jdbc SERVER_JDBC_URL=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sonar?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8.

1. Download SonarQube Runner
2. Edit SonarQube Runner config at $SONARQUBE_RUNNER_HOME/conf/sonar-runner.properties
   2.1. Setup sonar.host.url=$SERVER_ADDRESS
   2.2. Setup sonar.jdbc.url=$SERVER_JDBC_URL
   2.3. Setup sonar.jdbc.username and sonar.jdbc.password
   2.4. Setup sonar.login and sonar.password. Default is admin/admin
3. Add sonar-project.properties into the root of a project to be analyzed. As described here in section 'Simple Project'. Additional SonarQube Runner parameters can be found here
4. Run $SONARQUBE_RUNNER_HOME/bin/sonar-runner from the project root.