--- plugin.jelly_orig	Wed Aug 13 15:59:30 2003
+++ plugin.jelly	Wed Aug 13 15:56:10 2003
@@ -28,23 +28,30 @@
 
     <j:if test="${sourcesPresent == 'true'}">
 
-      <!-- If an explicit config file is set then use that. If one isn't 
+      <!-- If an explicit config file or URL is set then use that. If one isn't
       	   then we will look for the maven.checkstyle.format property and
       	   load the predefined config set. -->
       <j:set var="checkstylePropertiesX" value="${maven.checkstyle.properties}X"/>
+      <j:set var="checkstylePropertiesURLX" value="${maven.checkstyle.propertiesURL}X"/>
       <j:choose>
         <j:when test="${checkstylePropertiesX != 'X'}">
-          <j:set 
-            var="checkstyleProperties" 
-            value="${maven.checkstyle.properties}"/>
+          <j:set
+            var="checkstyleProperties"
+            value="file:${maven.checkstyle.properties}"/>
+          <util:replace oldChar="\\" newChar="/" value="${checkstyleProperties}" var="checkstyleProperties" />
+        </j:when>
+        <j:when test="${checkstylePropertiesURLX != 'X'}">
+          <j:set
+            var="checkstyleProperties"
+            value="${maven.checkstyle.propertiesURL}"/>
         </j:when>
         <j:otherwise>
-          <j:set 
-            var="checkstyleProperties" 
-            value="${plugin.resources}/${maven.checkstyle.format}_checks.xml"/>
+          <j:set
+            var="checkstyleProperties"
+            value="file:///${plugin.resources}/${maven.checkstyle.format}_checks.xml"/>
+          <util:replace oldChar="\\" newChar="/" value="${checkstyleProperties}" var="checkstyleProperties" />
         </j:otherwise>
       </j:choose>
-
       <ant:taskdef name="checkstyle"
         classname="com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.CheckStyleTask">
         <ant:classpath>
@@ -66,7 +73,7 @@
   <!--
      ========================================================================
        Check if license file is available, display warning if not and sets
-       the Ant "checkstyleShouldRun" property if the license file is 
+       the Ant "checkstyleShouldRun" property if the license file is
        available.
      ========================================================================
   -->
@@ -76,7 +83,7 @@
     <j:if test="${sourcesPresent == 'true'}">
 
       <util:file var="header" name="${maven.checkstyle.header.file}"/>
-      
+
       <j:choose>
         <j:when test="${not(header.exists())}">
           <ant:echo>
@@ -87,7 +94,7 @@
             =  ${header}
             =  Checkstyle needs it to check the existence of the License in =
             =  your source files. If it can't find this file, it throws an  =
-            =  error.                                                       = 
+            =  error.                                                       =
             =  A temporary solution is to create an empty LICENSE.txt file. =
             =  Though, we recommend that you edit this License.             =
             =================================================================
@@ -114,21 +121,21 @@
 
     <j:if test="${checkstyleShouldRun}">
 
-      <!-- Create the directory for the checkstyle cache in case it doesn't 
+      <!-- Create the directory for the checkstyle cache in case it doesn't
       	   exist already -->
-      <ant:dirname property="maven.checkstyle.cache.dir" 
+      <ant:dirname property="maven.checkstyle.cache.dir"
         file="${maven.checkstyle.cache.file}"/>
       <ant:mkdir dir="${maven.checkstyle.cache.dir}"/>
 
       <ant:echo>Using ${checkstyleProperties} for checkstyle ...</ant:echo>
 
       <ant:checkstyle
-        config="${checkstyleProperties}"
+        configURL="${checkstyleProperties}"
         failOnViolation="${maven.checkstyle.fail.on.violation}">
 
-        <property key="checkstyle.header.file" 
+        <property key="checkstyle.header.file"
           file="${maven.checkstyle.header.file}"/>
-        <property key="checkstyle.cache.file" 
+        <property key="checkstyle.cache.file"
           file="${maven.checkstyle.cache.file}"/>
 
         <ant:fileset dir="${pom.build.sourceDirectory}"
@@ -150,12 +157,12 @@
 
         </ant:fileset>
 
-        <ant:formatter type="xml" 
+        <ant:formatter type="xml"
           toFile="${maven.build.dir}/checkstyle-raw-report.xml"/>
 
         <j:choose>
           <j:when test="${maven.checkstyle.usefile}">
-            <ant:formatter type="plain" 
+            <ant:formatter type="plain"
               toFile="${maven.build.dir}/checkstyle-raw-report.txt"/>
           </j:when>
           <j:otherwise>
@@ -164,9 +171,9 @@
         </j:choose>
 
       </ant:checkstyle>
-      
+
       <j:set var="maven.docs.outputencoding" value="${pom.getPluginContext('maven-xdoc-plugin').getVariable('maven.docs.outputencoding')}"/>
-      
+
       <doc:jsl
         input="${maven.build.dir}/checkstyle-raw-report.xml"
         output="checkstyle-report.xml"
@@ -186,14 +193,14 @@
   -->
   <goal name="maven-checkstyle-plugin:register">
     <j:if test="${sourcesPresent == 'true'}">
-      <doc:registerReport 
-        name="Checkstyle" 
+      <doc:registerReport
+        name="Checkstyle"
         pluginName="checkstyle"
         link="checkstyle-report"
         description="Report on coding style conventions."/>
     </j:if>
   </goal>
-  
+
   <!--
      ========================================================================
        Deregister a Checkstyle report to the "site" plugin.