diff --git a/diff_cover/diff_quality_tool.py b/diff_cover/diff_quality_tool.py
index 1262ad95..1c27b053 100644
--- a/diff_cover/diff_quality_tool.py
+++ b/diff_cover/diff_quality_tool.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     jshint_driver, eslint_driver, pydocstyle_driver,
     pycodestyle_driver)
 from diff_cover.violationsreporters.java_violations_reporter import (
-    CheckstyleXmlDriver, checkstyle_driver, FindbugsXmlDriver)
+    CheckstyleXmlDriver, checkstyle_driver, FindbugsXmlDriver, PmdXmlDriver)
 
 QUALITY_DRIVERS = {
     'pycodestyle': pycodestyle_driver,
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@
     'pydocstyle': pydocstyle_driver,
     'checkstyle': checkstyle_driver,
     'checkstylexml': CheckstyleXmlDriver(),
-    'findbugs': FindbugsXmlDriver()
+    'findbugs': FindbugsXmlDriver(),
+    'pmd': PmdXmlDriver()
 }
 
 VIOLATION_CMD_HELP = "Which code quality tool to use (%s)" % "/".join(sorted(QUALITY_DRIVERS))
diff --git a/diff_cover/tests/test_java_violations_reporter.py b/diff_cover/tests/test_java_violations_reporter.py
index a0b4e46b..bc139bb5 100644
--- a/diff_cover/tests/test_java_violations_reporter.py
+++ b/diff_cover/tests/test_java_violations_reporter.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 from diff_cover.violationsreporters.base import QualityReporter
 from diff_cover.violationsreporters.java_violations_reporter import (
     Violation, checkstyle_driver,
-    CheckstyleXmlDriver, FindbugsXmlDriver)
+    CheckstyleXmlDriver, FindbugsXmlDriver, PmdXmlDriver)
 
 
 def _patch_so_all_files_exist():
@@ -354,3 +354,75 @@ def test_quality_pregenerated_report(self):
         self.assertEqual(len(actual_violations), len(expected_violations))
         for expected in expected_violations:
             self.assertIn(expected, actual_violations)
+
+
+class PmdXmlQualityReporterTest(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        _patch_so_all_files_exist()
+        # Paths generated by git_path are always the given argument
+        _git_path_mock = patch('diff_cover.violationsreporters.java_violations_reporter.GitPathTool').start()
+        _git_path_mock.relative_path = lambda path: path
+        _git_path_mock.absolute_path = lambda path: path
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        """
+        Undo all patches.
+        """
+        patch.stopall()
+
+    def test_no_such_file(self):
+        quality = QualityReporter(PmdXmlDriver())
+
+        # Expect that we get no results
+        result = quality.violations('')
+        self.assertEqual(result, [])
+
+    def test_no_java_file(self):
+        quality = QualityReporter(PmdXmlDriver())
+        file_paths = ['file1.coffee', 'subdir/file2.js']
+        # Expect that we get no results because no Java files
+        for path in file_paths:
+            result = quality.violations(path)
+            self.assertEqual(result, [])
+
+    def test_quality_pregenerated_report(self):
+        # When the user provides us with a pre-generated findbugs report
+        # then use that instead of calling findbugs directly.
+        pmd_reports = [
+            BytesIO(dedent("""
+            <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+            <pmd version="5.6.1" timestamp="2019-06-24T15:47:13.429">
+            <file name="path/to/file.java">
+            <violation beginline="21" endline="118" begincolumn="8" endcolumn="1" rule="ClassMustHaveAuthorRule" ruleset="AlibabaJavaComments" package="com.huifu.devops.application.component" class="LingeringInputFilter" priority="3">
+            must have @author comment
+            </violation>
+            </file>
+            <file name="path/to/file.java">
+            <violation beginline="10" endline="10" begincolumn="29" endcolumn="63" rule="AbstractMethodOrInterfaceMethodMustUseJavadocRule" ruleset="AlibabaJavaComments" package="com.huifu.devops.application.component" class="PipelineExecutionStepVoConverter" method="convert" priority="3">
+            interface method must include javadoc comment
+            </violation>
+            </file>
+            </pmd>
+            """).strip().encode('utf-8'))
+        ]
+
+        pmd_xml_driver = PmdXmlDriver()
+        # Generate the violation report
+        quality = QualityReporter(pmd_xml_driver, reports=pmd_reports)
+
+        # Expect that pmd is not installed
+        self.assertEqual(pmd_xml_driver.installed(), False)
+
+        # Expect that we get the right violations
+        expected_violations = [
+            Violation(21, 'ClassMustHaveAuthorRule: must have @author comment'),
+            Violation(10, 'AbstractMethodOrInterfaceMethodMustUseJavadocRule: interface method must include javadoc comment')
+        ]
+
+        # We're not guaranteed that the violations are returned
+        # in any particular order.
+        actual_violations = quality.violations('path/to/file.java')
+        self.assertEqual(len(actual_violations), len(expected_violations))
+        for expected in expected_violations:
+            self.assertIn(expected, actual_violations)
diff --git a/diff_cover/violationsreporters/java_violations_reporter.py b/diff_cover/violationsreporters/java_violations_reporter.py
index c2010086..072a42d1 100644
--- a/diff_cover/violationsreporters/java_violations_reporter.py
+++ b/diff_cover/violationsreporters/java_violations_reporter.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 """
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
+import os
 from collections import defaultdict
 
 from xml.etree import cElementTree
@@ -115,3 +116,46 @@ def installed(self):
         Returns: boolean False: As findbugs analyses bytecode, it would be hard to run it from outside the build framework.
         """
         return False
+
+
+class PmdXmlDriver(QualityDriver):
+    def __init__(self):
+        """
+        See super for args
+        """
+        super(PmdXmlDriver, self).__init__(
+            'pmd',
+            ['java'],
+            []
+        )
+
+    def parse_reports(self, reports):
+        """
+        Args:
+            reports: list[str] - output from the report
+        Return:
+            A dict[Str:Violation]
+            Violation is a simple named tuple Defined above
+        """
+        violations_dict = defaultdict(list)
+        for report in reports:
+            xml_document = cElementTree.fromstring("".join(report))
+            node_files = xml_document.findall(".//file")
+            for node_file in node_files:
+                for error in node_file.findall('violation'):
+                    line_number = error.get('beginline')
+                    error_str = "{}: {}".format(error.get('rule'),
+                                                error.text.strip())
+                    violation = Violation(int(line_number), error_str)
+                    filename = GitPathTool.relative_path(node_file.get('name'))
+                    filename = filename.replace(os.sep, "/")
+                    violations_dict[filename].append(violation)
+
+        return violations_dict
+
+    def installed(self):
+        """
+        Method checks if the provided tool is installed.
+        Returns: boolean False: As findbugs analyses bytecode, it would be hard to run it from outside the build framework.
+        """
+        return False