Java static code analysis

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I am looking for eclipse/netbeans plugin or a tool, which analysis java project, and give us a report of unused imports, unused variables, unused methods, violating custom naming conventions, etc..

@Surendhar For eclipse please have findbug pluging with you. Its really useful. — amod, Sep 12 '12 at 13:01
Have a look a similar question is asked here. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7321282/which-is-the-best-tool-for-finding-bugs-in-the-java-code — amod, Sep 12 '12 at 13:04

Nandkumar Tekale · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-12T13:01:06.847

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Eclipse provides it as Markers. It will provide all your cases except violating custom naming conventions.

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answered Sep 12 '12 at 12:53

Nandkumar Tekale

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Will it do naming convention analysis? – Nageswaran Sep 12 '12 at 12:56

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 12 '12 at 12:54

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Findbugs works well as Eclipse plugin, and is easily customizable.

If you're looking for something bigger, or you work in a continous integration environment, I'd go for Sonar.

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We use findbugs with TeamCity -- it does integrate with CB environments. – slim Mar 20 '13 at 16:25

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 12 '12 at 12:45

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FindBugs is probably one of the most prominent ones and well worth a try.

For naming conventions etc, I'd suggest you have a look at CheckStyle.

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 12 '12 at 12:46

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Netbeans 7.2 has a new Inspect feature: goto Source|Inspect from the menu. It certainly has most of the tests for mentioned in your question.

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agreed! In combination with findbugs plugin its very usefull and capable of doing many common modification (like fixing imports) all over a project with some clicks. – ollo Sep 12 '12 at 12:56

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 12 '12 at 12:51

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... in addition look at sonar. It's been quiet the eye opener when I first discovered it.

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score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 12 '12 at 13:01

For the little things like naming conventions and imports, I agree with the other answers that PMD is a pretty good choice.

[shameless plug] This may be overkill, but there's a tool called "Codefacts" that the company that I work at developed, which will analyze your code from a git or svn repository. It runs metrics and stuff to assess code quality. It might fit into your "etc.."

I can't recall all of the metrics it uses, but some of them are things like comment/code ratio, documentation coverage, checking if a lot of your methods/classes are too long, and a bunch more. Codefacts can be downloaded here [/shameless plug]

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Sep 12 '12 at 12:56

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I use combination of three tools which supplement each other: PMD, Checkstyle and FindBugs.

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Either of this do, naming convention analysis? – Nageswaran Sep 12 '12 at 12:57

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Sep 12 '12 at 12:53

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Try Checkstyle (my preference) or PMD.

answered Sep 12 '12 at 12:53

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