The customRunnerTemplate parameter should accept URLs and files on classpath.

[klieber]

I'd like the customerRunnerTemplate parameter to work similar to how the maven-checkstyle-plugin handles it's configLocation parameter. It accepts a string and then attempts to resolve it first as a classpath resource, then as a URL, and finally as a File (today's behavior). This will improve the ability to share templates. With this solution you could jar up the resource and distribute it that way or better yet, serve the template up on a CDN server and just point to the URL.