sonar-maven-plugin Insufficient privileges

When using "sonar-maven-plugin" as part of the jenkins build process, you might encounter this error message "[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.sonarsource.scanner.maven:sonar-maven-plugin:3.3.0.603:sonar (default-cli) on project service1-data: Insufficient privileges -> [Help 1]
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal org.sonarsource.scanner.maven:sonar-maven-plugin:3.3.0.603:sonar (default-cli) on project service1-data: Insufficient privileges
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:216)".

To fix this issue make sure that jenkins continuous integration (CI) job is building with correct projects' pom.xml in multi-module project. For example if your project has the following hierarchy
project/pom.xml
project/folder1/pom.xml
project/folder2/pom.xml

then if jenkins CI build is using project/pom.xml then
the sonar jenkins job (using sonar-maven-plugin) should also be using project/pom.xml

If the jenkins CI job is using project/pom.xml but sonar jenkins job is using different pom.xml say project/folder1/pom.xml then you will get above error.

How to add custom/local jars to a maven project as in-project repository

There are certain times when you will need to add a custom jar that is not present in a central or local repository as part of the maven build/compile goals. This jar along with others would need to be shipped out as part of the jar depdencies that are needed for the program to run. If you encounter such a suitation then follow the steps below to add the custom/local jar to your project.

1) Create a folder called 'lib' in your project root hierarchy.
For example if you have a project called c:\myTestProject then create a folder c:\myTestProject\lib

2) Copy the jar file to c:\myTestProject
For example lets say that we need to add a jar called abcd.jar to our project. So copy abcd.jar to c:\myTestProject\abcd.jar

3) Using maven 2.3 onwards, from windows command line, issue the command
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=c:\myTestProject\abcd.jar -DgroupId=com.xyz.myproject -DartifactId=abcd -Dversion=1.0.0 -Dpackaging=jar -DlocalRepositoryPath=c:\myTestProject\lib -DgeneratePom=true

After running that command, you will see the below folder created with the jar in it
c:\myTestProject\lib\com\xyz\myproject\abcd-1.0.0.jar

Now you can delete the c:\myTestProject\abcd.jar

4) Make the below changes to your projects pom.xml file
Note: file://${project.basedir}\lib has a \lib (backlash\lib) which is needed to work on windows computers
 
<project>
...
...

<repositories>
  <repository>
    <id>my-local-repo</id>
    <releases>
        <enabled>true</enabled>
    </releases>
    <snapshots>
        <enabled>true</enabled>
    </snapshots>
    <url>file://${project.basedir}\lib</url>
  </repository>
</repositories>

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
         <groupId>com.xyz.myproject</groupId>
        <artifactId>abcd</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.0</version>
    </dependency>
    ...
    ...
</dependencies>

...
...
<project>

After following the above steps, if you are still not able to build the project using maven and maven says that it cannot locate the abcd.jar file then check the maven settings ${maven_home}\.m2\settings.xml file
set the <mirrorOf> tag as mentioned below

<mirrors>
    <mirror>
        <mirrorOf>*<mirrorOf>
        ...
        ...
    </mirror>
</mirrors>