Re: Tasklist and findbugs

Tor Norbye 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.
> 
> 
> Well, the tasklist suggestions feature works in two modes:
> - the suggestions view, which shows suggestions for the "current"
>  file being edited
> - Tools -> Scan Directory For Suggestions
>  This gets to look at all files, including .class files, so it could
>  do byte code scanning and take the whole application into consideration,
>  although until we get projects in 4.0 it's hard to get classpath
>  etc. which I'm sure the tool needs.

You're right! the tool needs to know the classpath.

> Unfortunately I'm -completely- swamped with work these days (getting less
> than five hours of sleep per night this week) so I can't look at this for
> a while.

Don't worry. The suggestion made by Vincent Brabant seems very interesting to
me and I will try it, so there is no need to develop something for the moment.

> -- Tor
> 
> 
>>
>> 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?

-- 
Philippe Couton
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