Invoking the Compiler from Code: The Java Compiler API We all use the javac command-line tool for compiling Java source files to class files. Then why do we need an API to compile Java files? Well ...

Klocwork Insight for C/C++ and Java brings static source code analysis to Java developers. It can help improve code quality while reducing bugs and addressing security vulnerabilities ...

Java static code analysis tools such as Checkstyle, FindBugs and others can parse your code to identify potential problems. Java developers should make code analysis a key part of the development ...

Klocwork will be showing off its extended Java static source-code-analysis capabilities as part of its Klocwork Insight product at ESC. Its source code analysis solution can identify critical bugs ...

Klocwork this week announced shipments of Klocwork Insight, bringing system-wide source code analysis to the developer desktop, the company said. The company has filed multiple patents on what it ...

Writing Java software that correctly makes use of concurrency requires careful thought. Static analysis tools can analyze source code or compiled bytecode to discover latent bugs hidden within code.

Open-source application from SEI CERT, SCALe, uses multiple static analysis tools to find security flaws in source code.

PMD is a static Java source code analysis tool, similar in concept to Checkstyle, FindBugs and Coverity. It searches Java code for inefficient code, bugs, common coding problems, and other such ...

Sun Microsystems wants to send Java closer to the open-source world, yet keep it safe from harm. It will modify its licenses to make access to the Java source code easier, the Santa Clara, Calif ...

The move, planned for Sun's JavaOne conference in San Francisco, acknowledges that the open-source software philosophy is important even in areas such as Java, where Sun has been reluctant to let ...