Please provide compiled classes of your project with sonar.java.binaries

I got the same error while invoking Standalone SonarQube Analysis as a Jenkins job pre-build step, which I fixed adding sonar.java.binaries=**/target/classes along with other SonarQube Analysis properties, as follows:

sonar.projectKey=TEST-PROJECT
sonar.projectName=TEST-PROJECT
sonar.projectVersion=1.0
sonar.sources=src/main/java/
sonar.language=java
sonar.java.binaries=**/target/classes  

You're running your Maven steps in the wrong order:

• clean - delete all previous build output
• sonar:sonar - run analysis (which requires build output)
• deploy - build &etc...

Try this instead:

mvn clean deploy sonar:sonar

Now if you're about to object that you don't want to actually "deploy" the jar until/unless the changed code passes the Quality Gate, well... that requires a different workflow:

mvn clean package sonar:sonar
// check quality gate status
// if (qualityGateOk) { deploy }

The particulars of those last two steps will depend on your CI infrastructure. But for Jenkins, step #2 is well documented

I had a seme problem. I did below steps Added Invoke top-level maven target from build steps (It should be the first build step) added clean install.

and also added below properties to my Analysis properties under Execute SonarQube scanner.

sonar.projectVersion=1.0
sonar.sources=src/main/java
sonar.sourceEncoding=UTF-8
sonar.language=java
sonar.java.binaries=target/classes