Download the FindBugs archive from the following location: http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/downloads.html Unpack the contents of the 'findbugs-/lib' folder within the archive to the 'qpid/java/lib/findbugs' (i.e. this) directory. This should leave you with contents of 'qpid/java/lib/findbugs' similar to: annotations.jar ant.jar asm-3.1.jar asm-analysis-3.1.jar asm-commons-3.1.jar asm-tree-3.1.jar asm-util-3.1.jar asm-xml-3.1.jar bcel.jar buggy.icns commons-lang-2.4.jar dom4j-1.6.1.jar findbugs-ant.jar findbugs.jar jFormatString.jar jaxen-1.1.1.jar jdepend-2.9.jar jsr305.jar mysql-connector-java-5.1.7-bin.jar Now simply run "ant findbugs" in qpid/java to generate the report.