Hi,
I am trying to publish PMD analysis report published by my ANT script in freestyle project(jenkins job). The ANT Script runs successfully and i can see the warnings generated in the pmd.xml file in my jenkins workspace folder .The pmd report is saved as pmd.xml in the root of workspace.
Also, when I configure the settings of the job, i see an ERROR right away after i add publish PMD report in Post build actions. The stack trace has been attached along with the console output for pmd.

What I tried: Downgrading to Static Analysis Utilities 1.60. with no success in resolving the issue.

Update: I tried build again, without any changes but it gives me different stack trace on console from first output (attached):
(second build console output )
Total time: 2 seconds
[PMD] Collecting PMD analysis files...
ERROR: Publisher hudson.plugins.pmd.PmdPublisher aborted due to exception
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: jenkins/MasterToSlaveFileCallable
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:800)
at jenkins.util.AntClassLoader.defineClassFromData(AntClassLoader.java:1138)
at hudson.ClassicPluginStrategy$AntClassLoader2.defineClassFromData(ClassicPluginStrategy.java:756)
at jenkins.util.AntClassLoader.getClassFromStream(AntClassLoader.java:1309)
at jenkins.util.AntClassLoader.findClassInComponents(AntClassLoader.java:1365)
at jenkins.util.AntClassLoader.findClass(AntClassLoader.java:1325)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor25.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at jenkins.ClassLoaderReflectionToolkit.invoke(ClassLoaderReflectionToolkit.java:44)
at jenkins.ClassLoaderReflectionToolkit._findClass(ClassLoaderReflectionToolkit.java:86)
at hudson.ClassicPluginStrategy$DependencyClassLoader.findClass(ClassicPluginStrategy.java:634)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
at jenkins.util.AntClassLoader.findBaseClass(AntClassLoader.java:1397)
at jenkins.util.AntClassLoader.loadClass(AntClassLoader.java:1074)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
at hudson.plugins.pmd.PmdPublisher.perform(PmdPublisher.java:80)
at hudson.plugins.analysis.core.HealthAwarePublisher.perform(HealthAwarePublisher.java:68)
at hudson.plugins.analysis.core.HealthAwareRecorder.perform(HealthAwareRecorder.java:280)
at hudson.tasks.BuildStepCompatibilityLayer.perform(BuildStepCompatibilityLayer.java:74)
at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$1.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:20)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.perform(AbstractBuild.java:770)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:734)
at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.post2(Build.java:183)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.post(AbstractBuild.java:683)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1770)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:89)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:240)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: jenkins.MasterToSlaveFileCallable
at jenkins.util.AntClassLoader.findClassInComponents(AntClassLoader.java:1375)
at jenkins.util.AntClassLoader.findClass(AntClassLoader.java:1325)
at jenkins.util.AntClassLoader.loadClass(AntClassLoader.java:1078)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
... 31 more
Finished: FAILURE