Re: Tasklist and findbugs

Philippe Couton wrote:
> Please forget the previous message. After reading more carefully the docs,
> I realized these two points:
> - findbugs works on bytecode, not on source,
> - findbugs must analyze the whole program, not individual classes.
> 
> So, IMHO, it is a nonsense to integrate it in the suggestions view of 
> Tasklist.
> 
> But, anyway, it would be nice to have a NetBeans module for this tool.

Maybe a suggestion:

That tool has a Ant task.
And you can easily, with netbeans, create a menu item that call an Ant task.

Why not try that way ?

> 
> Philippe Couton wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Browsing the web last week, I discovered by chance a tool similar to 
>> PMD: findbugs (http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/bugs/). This not a 
>> competitor of PMD, but rather a complementary tool showing potential 
>> bugs not found by PMD.
>>
>> A nice feature would be to have this tool integrated in the TaskList's 
>> suggestions view in the same way as PMD. Is there any plans to do that?
>>
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