January 22, 2004
Checkstyle or PMD?

Err, that's it, really; Checkstyle, or PMD, or both? Or is there anything else in this area that I should take a look at?

Posted to Java by Simon Brunning at January 22, 2004 05:15 PM
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I spent 1.5 hrs trying out PMD recently and decided that for my uses, it just wasn't worth the trouble. I can't compare with checkstyle.

Posted by: Michael Chermside on January 22, 2004 06:36 PM

Both. Checkstyle checks code conventions (line length, brace position, etc). PMD checks code semantics (bugs). There is some overlap, but they have very different focus.

Posted by: Will Sargent on January 22, 2004 09:14 PM

If you have the funding, JTest is a good commercial tool - the static analysis part is great.

Posted by: Ken Liu on January 24, 2004 07:45 AM
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