Hi Maxym,
I use PMD. I don't see a rule for this. Their web site doesn't
mention one either. I never looked into writing my own rules thoug -
if it's not too hard, I guess I can try. Thanks for the suggestion.
tom
Maxym Mykhalchuk wrote:
Thomas,
I believe there's such a tool - PMD should have a rule to detect unused classes.
If not you may write a rule yourself :-)
Best,
Maxym
P.S. It has a plugin for NetBeans
2008/5/8, Thomas Wolf twolf@...:
Every now and then I work on larger projects where alot of cruft, in the
form of unused Java files, has accumulated. Each time, I unsuccessfully
look through NB and its plugins for a tool that can find potentially unused
java classes in a project. I asked my Eclipse-toting colleagues and it,
too, doesn't seem to have any such tool :-( I always check the web for
static analysis tools that might do the job - either my keyword searches are
insufficient or there are just none to be found.
Does anyone know of such a tool?
I am not looking for a perfect solution - I know that no tool would know
whether statically unreferenced classes are dynamically referenced from
somewhere. I'm just looking for one that can check for static references.
Many thanks for any suggestions/pointers.
Tom
P.S. Eclipse and Netbeans both have "Find Usages" capabilities. But with
3800 src files, I don't want to go through that exercise.
