I love findbugs too and we definitely need to enable it as we're doing for checkstyle. I completely agree. It's a great tool. Thanks -Vincent On Oct 1, 2008, at 2:47 PM, Jonas von Malottki wrote:
Hello Xwiki-Devs,
for the fun of it I let FindBugs check the Xwiki Core code and it found a bunch of "Issues". Some of them are more severe than others.
Maybe it is interesting to check it out. In my own programs I found some really interesting errors/problems I was never aware of. (Including some thread safety related stuff)
The good thing with Findbugs is the extensive documentation, that gives you a very good explanation why the found issue is an issue. There are also some "false positives", also explained in the documentation.
http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
Findbugs also has good Eclipse Integration and a Maven plugin. Definitely worth a try. A first peek is painlessly done via Java webstart.
It's just a pointer..
Greetings Jonas