Re: Tasklist and findbugs

Vincent Brabant wrote:

> Philippe Couton a écrit :
> 
>> 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.
>>
> 
> Did you success ?

Partly. I made an Ant file I'm using to run FindBugs from NetBeans
(didn't tried to create a shortcut or menu item to run it).

The main problem is that the messages in the output console are not
hyper-linked :-(

>>>> 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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