I checked and the pylint result file is located at alfa/test/pylint.txt and I configured the Violations Plugin to use **/alfa/test/pylint.txt as pyling xml file.

When you run the job it will fail with the error below.

I have to mention that "ZenALF.py" is a file from the root of the workspace, but really don't know how the violations plugin managed to create this horrible path, that looks like a concatenation of at least 3 different things.

ERROR: Publisher hudson.plugins.violations.ViolationsPublisher aborted due to exception
java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\.hudson\jobs\alf-ps\builds\2010-09-10_19-28-30\violations\file\C:\.hudson\jobs\alf-ps\workspace\ZenALF.py.xml (The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:179)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:131)
at hudson.FilePath.write(FilePath.java:1241)
at hudson.plugins.violations.generate.ExecuteFilePath.execute(ExecuteFilePath.java:40)
at hudson.plugins.violations.generate.GenerateXML.execute(GenerateXML.java:47)
at hudson.plugins.violations.ViolationsCollector.invoke(ViolationsCollector.java:124)
at hudson.plugins.violations.ViolationsCollector.invoke(ViolationsCollector.java:27)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:753)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:735)
at hudson.plugins.violations.ViolationsPublisher.perform(ViolationsPublisher.java:74)
at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$3.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:36)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.perform(AbstractBuild.java:601)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:580)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:558)
at hudson.model.Build$RunnerImpl.post2(Build.java:158)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.post(AbstractBuild.java:528)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1276)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:124)
Finished: FAILURE