As the CoverityWidget is no longer used in 7.9 and 8.9 LTS and the data it
displayed can still be found in the Measures tab.
The CoverityWidget code will cause a ClassNotFoundException in SonarQube 8.9
LTS upon startup (while it still works in SonarQube 7.9 LTS). There was a
major overhaul that occurred in SonarQube 6.2 that removed Widgets and
customized dashboards (see https://jira.sonarsource.com/browse/SONAR-8354).
As the CoverityWidget is no longer used in 7.9 and 8.9 LTS and the data it displayed can still be found in the Measures tab.
The CoverityWidget code will cause a ClassNotFoundException in SonarQube 8.9 LTS upon startup (while it still works in SonarQube 7.9 LTS). There was a major overhaul that occurred in SonarQube 6.2 that removed Widgets and customized dashboards (see https://jira.sonarsource.com/browse/SONAR-8354).