Re: Tasklist and findbugs

vincent Brabant wrote:
> 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 ?

Nice idea! I will try that.

Thank's for the suggestion.

>> 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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