Spotbugs alternatives and similar libraries
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Checkstyle
Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. By default it supports the Google Java Style Guide and Sun Code Conventions, but is highly configurable. It can be invoked with an ANT task and a command line program. -
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NullAway
A tool to help eliminate NullPointerExceptions (NPEs) in your Java code with low build-time overhead -
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Spoon
Spoon is a metaprogramming library to analyze and transform Java source code. :spoon: is made with :heart:, :beers: and :sparkles:. It parses source files to build a well-designed AST with powerful analysis and transformation API. -
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WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
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They vary from L1 to L5 with "L5" being the highest.
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README
SpotBugs is the spiritual successor of FindBugs, carrying on from the point where it left off with support of its community.
SpotBugs is licensed under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.
More information at the official website. A lot of things can still be found at the old FindBugs website.
Build
SpotBugs is built using Gradle. The recommended way to obtain it is to simply run the gradlew (or gradlew.bat) wrapper, which will automatically download and run the correct version as needed (using the settings in gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties).
To see a list of build options, run gradle tasks (or gradlew tasks). The build task will perform a full build and test.
To build the SpotBugs plugin for Eclipse, you'll need to create the file eclipsePlugin/local.properties, containing a property eclipseRoot.dir that points to an Eclipse installation's root directory (see .travis.yml for an example), then run the build.
To prepare Eclipse environment only, run ./gradlew eclipse. See also detailed steps.
Using SpotBugs
SpotBugs can be used standalone and through several integrations, including:
Questions?
You can contact us using GitHub Discussions.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the Spotbugs README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.