Plugins can be specified in three different ways: * For a standard FindBugd distro, they can be put into the plugins directory * For a JAWS distro, the file pluginlist.properties contains a list of URLs to plugins. These URLs can be relative or absolute. If they are absolute, they are relative to jar file that contained the pluginlist.properties file. * You can define properties findbugs.plugin.*. Each such property defines a URL for a plugin