Skip Maven Flex PMD - pmd

Question

We are looking for an option in flex-pmd-maven-plugin to skip the pmd execution temporarily using a command-line option. The maven pmd plugin has a -Dpmd.skip=true option.
I am looking for a similar kind of thing for flex-pmd-maven-plugin too.
<plugin>
<groupId>com.adobe.ac</groupId>
<artifactId>flex-pmd-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${flex-pmd.version}</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>check</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<ruleSet>build_rules/Flexpmd.xml</ruleSet>
<excludePackage>**/Mocked*.as</excludePackage>
</configuration>
</plugin>
I had a look at the source code for the plugin and there seems to be no option to do that.
Any ideas or a work around on this is welcome..

Answer 1

I found a workaround to skipping the Flex PMD without having to actually remove the plugin.
The flex-pmd plugin runs in the verify maven phase. I got the phase in the plugin parameterized as and passed a command line argument -Dpmd.phase as either deploy or package.
An then I then ran the command
mvn clean install -Dpmd.phase=deploy
Since maven runs only until install phase and the pmd phase is changed to deploy, the Flex PMD is skipped.. :)
When I want to run the Flex PMD, I just change the hudson build to run the following
mvn clean install -Dpmd.phase=package
Here the code snippet
<plugin>
<groupId>com.adobe.ac</groupId>
<artifactId>flex-pmd-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${flex-pmd.version}</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>${pmd.phase}</phase>
<goals>
<goal>check</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<ruleSet>build_rules/Flexpmd.xml</ruleSet>
<excludePackage>**/Mocked*.as</excludePackage>
</configuration>
</plugin>
I have also the following default property in the pom so that pmd will run by default for developers who run the normal mvn clean install
<properties>
<pmd.phase>package</pmd.phase>
</properties>