Java Code Analysis Tool

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Static Analysis tool recommendation for Java?

I have to find a java code analysis or inspection tool which can customized with user defined rule. Actually, I have to make some static code in my workspace to non-static. a tool where i can write some rules like if such a code is encountered in entire workspace then do something.

Can anyone suggest something.

please check once , you can find many post on the same topic — developer, Mar 07 '12 at 06:19
Possibility Duplicate : http://stackoverflow.com/q/97599/668970 — developer, Mar 07 '12 at 06:19

score 10 · Answer 1 · edited May 17 '19 at 18:09

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You can use

Google CodePro Analytix (Free)(one of my favourate tool),
SpotBugs (formerly known as Findbugs)
PMD
Checkstyle
Sonar - It's also good because it integrates all Findbugs, PMD, Checkstyle in one place and very well dashboard reporting available

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answered Mar 07 '12 at 06:24

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 07 '12 at 06:18

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PMD is extensible. The rules are file based and can be coded either in Java or XPath.

answered Mar 07 '12 at 06:18

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been there... in large project 90% of the problems pmd finds are worthless, so you end up with "// no pmd" comment :) – aviad Mar 07 '12 at 06:30
The trick with PMD is that you limit the rule set to the rules you really want to use. If you activate 100%, then of course, most results are not useful. But that's not the way to do it ;) ([Best Practices](http://pmd.sourceforge.net/bestpractices.html)) – Andreas Dolk Mar 07 '12 at 06:34
any good set of rules you came across? The best practices sucks as well... I'd appreciate you sharing this info. – aviad Mar 07 '12 at 06:37
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There is no "good" set of rules. If you do serious coding, you agree on a few rules within your team, activate them, put them on warning first and on error (= breaks build) after a some weeks/months. It's a tool. It does not *make* better software. *You* define your quality standards, pmd (and all the other tools) help in reaching and keeping *your* standards. – Andreas Dolk Mar 07 '12 at 09:19

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 07 '12 at 06:24

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If you want standalone tool http://www.sonarsource.org/ provides static analysis by using PMD, Findbugs, Checkstyles etc. You can define your own importance levels for all rules and modify rules.

It also integrates to Eclipse.

answered Mar 07 '12 at 06:24

Antti Järvinen