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Re: Looking for a clever maven module/class browser

From: Jane Young <jane.young_at_oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:29:19 -0800

Not sure if this is helpful... you may want to look into Maven
dependency plugin: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/

Also, you may want to consider posting this question in maven-user
forum: users_at_maven.apache.org


On 12/20/10 10:07 AM, Tim Quinn wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
>
> I am looking for a tool - a NB plug-in would be fine but not necessary
> - that would let me start at a class in a maven module and would
> display the other classes in the same project and in other projects
> which that class refers to. Then I could click on one of the
> referenced classes (in the same module or in another one) and browser
> from there.
>
> What I am really trying to accomplish is this. Class A in module X
> refers to B in Y. B refers to other classes in Y and yet more in
> module Z. I really want to break the indirect dependency of X on Z,
> so I would like to know if I move B from Y to somewhere else what else
> do I need to move?
>
> I have found some class/JAR browsers and some maven module browsers
> but I have not yet found anything that makes this task really easy.
>
> I have described this in terms of a GUI but that's not really
> necessary - although I'd prefer a GUI for ease of exploring.
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Tim
>
>