All errors detected by FindBugs receive an error rank, but the error rank is not displayed in the FindBugs log report report.
From FindBugs documentation:
Bug Rank - bugs get a rank of 1-20 and are grouped into scariest (rank 1-4), scary (rank 5-9), disturbing (rank 10-14) and anxiety (rank 15 -20).
Priority renamed trust - many people were confused by the priority reported by FindBugs, and believed that all problems with high priority were important. To reflect the actual value of this attribute of problems, it has been renamed Trust. Problems with different error patterns should be compared by their rank, and not by their confidence.
I launched Findbugs (v2.0.3 on Windows) both through the GUI and through the ant task
<findbugs home="${findbugs.home}" output="xml"
outputFile="${report.dir}/findbugs/findbugs-report.xml" jvmargs="-Xmx512M">
<auxClasspath>
<fileset dir="${lib.dir}/dist" includes="*.jar"/>
</auxClasspath>
<sourcePath path="${src.dir}"/>
<class location="${dist.dir}/mylibrary.jar"/>
</findbugs>
XML "File → Save As → FindBugs (* xml)".
XML Findbugs.
<BugInstance> rank. - :
<BugInstance type="DM_DEFAULT_ENCODING" priority="1" abbrev="Dm" category="I18N">
...
</BugInstance>
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Findbugs bugcollection.xsd,
<xs:attribute name="rank" type="xs:unsignedInt" use="optional"/>
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