From ad5b1751874291577f2d9f34990dc175d42d9452 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shai Almog <67850168+shai-almog@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:10:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Exclude PMD UselessParentheses rule

---
 maven/core-unittests/pmd.xml | 10 ++++++++++
 maven/core-unittests/pom.xml |  3 +++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 maven/core-unittests/pmd.xml

diff --git a/maven/core-unittests/pmd.xml b/maven/core-unittests/pmd.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2f3693a06c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven/core-unittests/pmd.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<ruleset name="core-unittests"
+         xmlns="http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ruleset/2.0.0"
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ruleset/2.0.0 http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ruleset_2_0_0.xsd">
+    <description>PMD rules for core unit tests.</description>
+    <rule ref="category/java/quickstart.xml">
+        <exclude name="UselessParentheses"/>
+    </rule>
+</ruleset>
diff --git a/maven/core-unittests/pom.xml b/maven/core-unittests/pom.xml
index d176fdf7eb..1096be32c0 100644
--- a/maven/core-unittests/pom.xml
+++ b/maven/core-unittests/pom.xml
@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@
                     <failOnViolation>false</failOnViolation>
                     <printFailingErrors>false</printFailingErrors>
                     <targetJdk>1.8</targetJdk>
+                    <rulesets>
+                        <ruleset>${project.basedir}/pmd.xml</ruleset>
+                    </rulesets>
                 </configuration>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>

From f20304b34ea0100bc07f5d8538d9290da3d2c007 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shai Almog <67850168+shai-almog@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:26:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Fix PMD ruleset reference for core-unittests

---
 maven/core-unittests/pmd.xml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/maven/core-unittests/pmd.xml b/maven/core-unittests/pmd.xml
index 2f3693a06c..b261165849 100644
--- a/maven/core-unittests/pmd.xml
+++ b/maven/core-unittests/pmd.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ruleset/2.0.0 http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ruleset_2_0_0.xsd">
     <description>PMD rules for core unit tests.</description>
-    <rule ref="category/java/quickstart.xml">
+    <rule ref="rulesets/java/quickstart.xml">
         <exclude name="UselessParentheses"/>
     </rule>
 </ruleset>