Re: Why are there no tools to find unused CLASSES?

Thomas,

I believe there's such a tool - PMD should have a rule to detect unused classes.
If not you may write a rule yourself 

Best,
Maxym
P.S. It has a plugin for NetBeans

2008/5/8, Thomas Wolf <twolf <at> netforensics.com>:
>
> Every now and then I work on larger projects where alot of cruft, in the
> form of unused Java files, has accumulated.  Each time, I unsuccessfully
> look through NB and its plugins for a tool that can find potentially unused
> java classes in a project.  I asked my Eclipse-toting colleagues and it,
> too, doesn't seem to have any such tool   I always check the web for
> static analysis tools that might do the job - either my keyword searches are
> insufficient or there are just none to be found.
>
> Does anyone know of such a tool?
>
> I  am not looking for a perfect solution - I know that no tool would know
> whether statically unreferenced classes are dynamically referenced from
> somewhere.  I'm just looking for one that can check for static references.
>
> Many thanks for any suggestions/pointers.
> Tom
>
> P.S. Eclipse and Netbeans both have "Find Usages" capabilities.  But with
> 3800 src files, I don't want to go through that exercise.
>
>

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