PMD is a source code analyzer. It finds common programming flaws like unused variables, empty catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth. It supports Java, JavaScript, Salesforce.com Apex and Visualforce, PLSQL, Apache Velocity, XML, and XSL. Additionally, it includes CPD, the copy-paste-detector. CPD finds duplicated code in Java, C, C++, C#, Groovy, PHP, Ruby, Fortran, JavaScript, PLSQL, Apache Velocity, Scala, Objective C, Matlab, Python, Go, Swift and Salesforce.com Apex, and Visualforce. It supports Java, JavaScript, Salesforce.com Apex and Visualforce, Modelica, PLSQL, Apache Velocity, XML, XSL, and Scala. Additionally, it includes CPD, the copy-paste-detector. CPD finds duplicated code in C/C++, C#, Dart, Fortran, Go, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Kotlin, Lua, Matlab, Modelica, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, PLSQL, Python, Ruby, Salesforce.com Apex, Scala, Swift, Visualforce and XML.

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  • It supports Java, JavaScript, Salesforce.com Apex and Visualforce, Modelica, PLSQL, Apache Velocity, XML, XSL, Scala
  • Additionally it includes CPD, the copy-paste-detector
  • CPD finds duplicated code in C/C++, C#, Dart, Fortran, Go, Groovy, Java, etc.
  • There are plugins for Maven and Gradle as well as for various IDEs
  • Download the latest binary zip from the releases and extract it somewhere
  • In the future we hope to add support for data/control flow analysis and automatic (quick) fixes where it makes sense

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Java

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Java Source Code Analysis Tool

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2022-05-19