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LICENSE

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 state the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
 the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
 
-    {one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.}
-    Copyright (C) {year}  {name of author}
+    <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
+    Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
 
     This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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   If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a short
 notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode:
 
-    {project}  Copyright (C) {year}  {fullname}
+    <program>  Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
     This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
     This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
     under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
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 the library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
 Public License instead of this License.  But first, please read
 <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html>.
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README.md

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+# EasyPmd
+
+*Seamlessly integrates PMD into your NetBeans IDE*
+
+
+## Introduction
+
+*Elegance always matters, especially when 
+creating software.*
+
+However, a universal definition of such an ambitious goal seems to be fairly difficult, if not impossible, as different programmers adopt different styles.
+
+PMD is a Java library/tool allowing you to scan your code and detecting *violations* of the *rules* that you requested to enforce: this introduces a great deal of flexibility, in particular if you consider that you can both use a wide range of predefined rules *and* write your own rules: for example, the predefined ruleset *rulesets/unusedcode.xml* will make PMD scan your source files for unused private fields, unused private methods, unused local variables and so on. Of course, you can instruct PMD to use *multiple rulesets simultaneously*.
+
+PMD can be run both as a library and as a standalone program, and several excellent IDE plugins are now available, some of which target NetBeans: EasyPmd is designed as an open source plugin for NetBeans which seamlessly integrates the PMD scanning engine into NetBeans, by making PMD violation reports automatically appear both in the *Action items* window and in the editor: you just have to specify the scanning scope (current file, main project, all projects) in the *Action items* window.
+
+The current major version provides a simplified, more elegant architecture, based on Helios, and *profiles*, to let you easily switch between multiple configurations.
+
+The overall build process is based on Maven 3, for elegance and robustness.
+
+
+## Features
+
+* Includes PMD 5, compatible with Java 8.
+
+* Fully-refactored, much better and faster architecture, relying on Helios and Maven 3.
+
+* Automatically runs PMD on the files of your current task scope (selected in the *Action items* window).
+
+* Reports every PMD violation both in the *Action Items* window and in the editor's side bar.
+
+* Option field for setting PMD's *auxiliary classpath*
+
+* **Supports profiles:** you can easily change the plugin's options simply by changing the active profile.
+
+* **Glyphs of different colors for different priorities:** ranging from full green to full red - according to the priority of the rule that is is bound to each violation.
+
+* **Priority filtering:** in the configuration dialog, one can choose the minimum priority level that PMD will consider when applying rules.
+
+* **Optional priority label in task descriptions:** each violation in the *Action items* window shows its priority by default - one can therefore sort violations just by clicking the *Description* header.
+
+* Includes a copy of PMD, for a safer and much faster execution.
+
+* **Robustness:** most execution errors, should they occur, are caught and reported in the tasks list, without crashing the plugin.
+
+* **Integrated cache:** to ensure maximum speed and avoid repeated scans, EasyPmd features a cache which is also persisted to disk, so it is available even after you restart NetBeans.
+
+* You can extensively customize EasyPmd and the underlying PMD engine via a user-friendly options dialog.
+
+* **Custom path filtering** (including and excluding paths), based on *regular expressions*.
+
+* Predefined, customizable regular expressions, to simplify path filtering.
+
+* Online help, integrated into the NetBeans help system.
+
+
+
+## Requirements
+
+EasyPmd 7 requires NetBeans 8+ and Java 8+.
+
+
+
+## Installation
+
+EasyPmd can be easily installed from within NetBeans, as explained in the tutorials below.
+
+Alternatively, you can download the **.nbm** files from GitHub or from the NetBeans Plugin Portal.
+
+
+
+
+## Tutorials on YouTube
+
+* [Getting started - English version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsMx6PNn0aI)
+
+* [Getting started - Version française](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k4Fk43u0QE)
+
+
+
+## Further references
+
+* [PMD](http://pmd.sourceforge.net/)
+* [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/easypmd)