If i understand you right, there are two things described here:

• The crap4j plugin does not handle the server context path right. That's
  probably true and i will look into this issue soon. Progress is tracked in the
  new issue #4361:
  https://hudson.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4361

• The HTML pages generated by the crap4j ant task are not accessible by the plugin.
  That's true and will be a new feature. Everything the plugin parses is the XML
  report to generate the charts and tables you've seen. The original HTML report
  is not included yet. There are several ways to deal with this feature request.
  A simple solution would be to include the HTML pages in the job artifact fileset
  and have the Sidebar Link Plugin
  (http://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Sidebar-Link+Plugin) link to it.

I'll change this issue to deal with the feature request solely. Could you review
my solution if it's acceptable for you?

Yes there are two things in this issue:

1) Support for the context path
2) Show default HTML report pages generated by the ANT/Maven script.

After reading your email I have a question, assuming context path issue is fixed
and I click on the "All Crappy Methods for #..." link, what would I see after
opened that link?

I don't think "Sidebar Link Plugin" would be a good solution to show HTML
Reports, I think it would be better to have a link like "All Crappy Methods for
#..." to see reports for current build, that was my impression when I try to
open that link.

Thank you

Currently, the text "All crappy methods for" stands as a headline for the table
underneath. The "#23"-link at the end points to the build result page. So if you
had support for context paths or would use no context path, the link would just
show "job/ABE/23/", which opens the build result overview.

That's why i changed this issue to a RFE. Currently, there are two pages and one
chart in the plugin:

• The overview page accessible from the job page. Here you find the four charts
  and the table
• The build result detail page. It's accessible from the build page
• The "history of crappyness"-chart on the right side of the job page

The plugin does not include the original HTML report yet. That's the topic of
this issue. Can you describe what part of the report you want to see most? I've
found the tables generated by crap4j rather useless.

Thank you for the detailed response.
For me "All Crappy Methods for #..." is little bit misleading link. I can easily
go back to the build result page using default Hudson top navigation bar. But
when I click on the "All Crappy Methods for #..." I would expect more info about
report, that is usual approach for all other Code Analyzes reports like PMD,
FindBugs, Duplicate and etc.

What do I like about default generated HTML pages? Well, I guess index(Summary)
page with two graphs(images) for the "Percentage of CRAPpy Methods" and "Method
CRAP Distribution". For me, more info we can add to the report is better.

You could add extra text box on the config page to specify where HTML reports
are located as an option. Right bellow "XML Crap Report filename pattern" text
box. Something like "HTML Crap Results location".

<hudson.plugins.crap4j.Crap4JPublisher>
<reportPattern>abe/crap4j/report.xml</reportPattern>
<reportHTML>abe/crap4j</reportHTML>
<healthBuilder>
<threshold>15.0</threshold>
</healthBuilder>
</hudson.plugins.crap4j.Crap4JPublisher>

Thank you.