diff --git a/pmd-netbeans/CHANGES.txt b/pmd-netbeans/CHANGES.txt
index f756bef108..eed89660b7 100644
--- a/pmd-netbeans/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/pmd-netbeans/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+- Updated pmd to version 3.8
+- reported violations are displayed as a table
+
 Version 1.7
 - Updated pmd to version 3.7
 - ignore R/O files in scanner (http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=72197)
diff --git a/pmd-netbeans/build.xml b/pmd-netbeans/build.xml
index 83e03956fa..e092d716be 100644
--- a/pmd-netbeans/build.xml
+++ b/pmd-netbeans/build.xml
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 
     <import file="nbproject/build-impl.xml"/>
 
-    <property name="pmd.jar" value="pmd-3.7.jar"/>
+    <property name="pmd.jar" value="pmd-3.8.jar"/>
     <property name="nb.version" value="netbeans50"/>
-    <property name="VERSION" value="1.7"/>
+    <property name="VERSION" value="1.8"/>
 
     <property file="build.ant.properties"/>
 
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
           <fileset dir="lib">
             <include name="${pmd.jar}"/>
             <include name="jakarta-oro-2.0.8.jar"/>
-            <include name="jaxen-1.1-beta-7.jar"/>
+            <include name="jaxen-1.1-beta-10.jar"/>
           </fileset>
         </copy>
     </target>
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 				<include name="src/**/*"/>
 				<include name="libsrc/**/*"/>
 				<include name="lib/${pmd.jar}"/>
-				<include name="lib/jaxen-1.1-beta-7.jar"/>
+				<include name="lib/jaxen-1.1-beta-10.jar"/>
 				<include name="lib/jakarta-oro-2.0.8.jar"/>
 			</zipfileset>
 			<zipfileset dir="." fullpath="pmd-${nb.version}-${VERSION}/pmd.nbm" includes="build/pmd.nbm"/>
diff --git a/pmd-netbeans/lib/jaxen-1.1-beta-10.jar b/pmd-netbeans/lib/jaxen-1.1-beta-10.jar
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..69b45d7a43
Binary files /dev/null and b/pmd-netbeans/lib/jaxen-1.1-beta-10.jar differ
diff --git a/pmd-netbeans/lib/jaxen-1.1-beta-7.jar b/pmd-netbeans/lib/jaxen-1.1-beta-7.jar
deleted file mode 100644
index 98ffbe3845..0000000000
Binary files a/pmd-netbeans/lib/jaxen-1.1-beta-7.jar and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/pmd-netbeans/lib/pmd-3.7.jar b/pmd-netbeans/lib/pmd-3.8.jar
similarity index 52%
rename from pmd-netbeans/lib/pmd-3.7.jar
rename to pmd-netbeans/lib/pmd-3.8.jar
index 1ef3252f7e..087138bb6c 100644
Binary files a/pmd-netbeans/lib/pmd-3.7.jar and b/pmd-netbeans/lib/pmd-3.8.jar differ
diff --git a/pmd-netbeans/manifest.mf b/pmd-netbeans/manifest.mf
index bcd450e810..47a4d8965a 100644
--- a/pmd-netbeans/manifest.mf
+++ b/pmd-netbeans/manifest.mf
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Manifest-Version: 1.0
-OpenIDE-Module-Specification-Version: 1.75
+OpenIDE-Module-Specification-Version: 1.8
 Created-By: Ole-Martin Mørk and Gunnlaugur Þór Briem, Radim Kubacki, Tomasz Slota
 OpenIDE-Module: pmd
 OpenIDE-Module-Layer: pmd/mf-layer.xml
diff --git a/pmd-netbeans/nbproject/genfiles.properties b/pmd-netbeans/nbproject/genfiles.properties
index dabcec7bc1..2cd93d2720 100644
--- a/pmd-netbeans/nbproject/genfiles.properties
+++ b/pmd-netbeans/nbproject/genfiles.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # This file is used by a NetBeans-based IDE to track changes in generated files such as build-impl.xml.
 # Do not edit this file. You may delete it but then the IDE will never regenerate such files for you.
-nbproject/build-impl.xml.data.CRC32=fdca63d6
+nbproject/build-impl.xml.data.CRC32=7b885a55
 nbproject/build-impl.xml.script.CRC32=4930d82d
 nbproject/build-impl.xml.stylesheet.CRC32=d126b16b
diff --git a/pmd-netbeans/nbproject/project.properties b/pmd-netbeans/nbproject/project.properties
index cfa30235af..dab38604ff 100644
--- a/pmd-netbeans/nbproject/project.properties
+++ b/pmd-netbeans/nbproject/project.properties
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 extra.module.files=\
-  modules/ext/jaxen-1.1-beta-7.jar \
-  modules/ext/pmd-3.7.jar \
+  modules/ext/jaxen-1.1-beta-10.jar \
+  modules/ext/pmd-3.8.jar \
   modules/ext/jakarta-oro-2.0.8.jar \
   modules/ext/nbpmdrules.jar 
 nbm.distribution=http://pmd.sourceforge.net/
 
 license.file=LICENSE.txt
 nbm.homepage=http://pmd.sourceforge.net/
-nbm.module.author=Ole-Martin Mørk, Gunnlaugur Þór Briem, Radim Kubacki
+nbm.module.author=Ole-Martin Mørk, Gunnlaugur Þór Briem, Radim Kubacki, Tomasz Slota
 #netbeans.dest.dir - absolute pathname of NB platform (or IDE or whatever) that
 #you are building your module against, and into which your module will be built.
 #Available in project.properties.
diff --git a/pmd-netbeans/nbproject/project.xml b/pmd-netbeans/nbproject/project.xml
index 6fc7b4a2c2..e53235653e 100644
--- a/pmd-netbeans/nbproject/project.xml
+++ b/pmd-netbeans/nbproject/project.xml
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@
                 <binary-origin>lib/jakarta-oro-2.0.8.jar</binary-origin>
             </class-path-extension>
             <class-path-extension>
-                <runtime-relative-path>ext/jaxen-1.1-beta-7.jar</runtime-relative-path>
-                <binary-origin>lib/jaxen-1.1-beta-7.jar</binary-origin>
+                <runtime-relative-path>ext/jaxen-1.1-beta-10.jar</runtime-relative-path>
+                <binary-origin>lib/jaxen-1.1-beta-10.jar</binary-origin>
             </class-path-extension>
             <class-path-extension>
-                <runtime-relative-path>ext/pmd-3.7.jar</runtime-relative-path>
-                <binary-origin>lib/pmd-3.7.jar</binary-origin>
+                <runtime-relative-path>ext/pmd-3.8.jar</runtime-relative-path>
+                <binary-origin>lib/pmd-3.8.jar</binary-origin>
             </class-path-extension>
             <class-path-extension>
                 <!-- Deployed path, relative to dir containing module: -->
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
             <public-packages/>
             <extra-compilation-unit>
                 <package-root>libsrc</package-root>
-                <classpath>lib/pmd-3.7.jar</classpath>
+                <classpath>lib/pmd-3.8.jar</classpath>
                 <built-to>build/libclasses</built-to>
                 <built-to>${cluster}/modules/ext/nbpmdrules.jar</built-to>
             </extra-compilation-unit>