unable to find mojo sonar (or one of its component) in the plugin org.sonarsource.scanner.maven:sonar-maven-plugin

Question

I am implementing sonar in my existing maven project.I am getting this error :

unable to find mojo sonar (or one of its component) in the plugin org.sonarsource.scanner.maven:sonar-maven-plugin

Following are my configs:

• Maven version:2.2.1

• Java version:1.6

• sonar-maven-plugin version:3.0.2

• sonarcube version:6.4

• sonar java version: 4.10.0.10260

I have updated:

• pom.xml

• settings.xml

• sonar-project.properties

to mentioned my intended java version in it.

Answer 1

Upgrade to Java 7 and Maven 3, and this should work.