Ability to specify the Cobertura maxmem property in the Settings page

In fact this property is only used to generate the xml report but not to specify the memory to be used by the forked Surfire process. As we have never encountered such memory limitation, I'm closing this issue with resolution "won't fix".

        ReportTask task = new ReportTask();
        ...
        // task specifics
        task.setMaxmem( maxmem );
        task.setOutputDirectory( outputDirectory );
        task.setCompileSourceRoots( getCompileSourceRoots() );

Hi Freddy,
The parameter maxmem is not only used for the report goal. See AbstractCoberturaMojo

In my case the cobertura:instrument goal fails with a "outOfMemoryError" and the cobertura.maxmem seems to be useless in this case. Is there a turnaround to increase the java heap memory (like with the arg -Xmx) when launching the new JVM for this goal?

Could you send an email to the Sonar User mailing list with your error Maven log file ? Thanks

You should use property "sonar.cobertura.maxmen" (also see SONAR-2897) or specify maxmem directly in pom.xml for cobertura-maven-plugin. And of course in case of problems - it's better to use Users Mailing List.