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Re: Files in GlassFish 3.2 workspace that contain incorrect COPYRIGHT headers.

From: Tim Quinn <tim.quinn_at_oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:24:32 -0500

On Jul 27, 2011, at 2:19 PM, Bill Shannon wrote:

> Tim Quinn wrote on 07/27/11 11:41 AM:
>>
>> On Jul 27, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Byron Nevins wrote:
>>
>>> KUDOS to whomever invented and implemented this idea. I almost
>>> always forget
>>> to update the copyright year. ..
>>
>> Indeed.
>>
>> Now, if this technology can be built into a maven plug-in that's run
>> automatically as part of our builds in our own workspaces, so we
>> can find out
>> BEFORE we check in the offending files...
>
> Where's that "Beginner's Guide to Writing Maven Plugins"? :-)
>
> What's an existing (simple) maven plugin that does something similar,
> i.e., analyzes all the source code in a project?

I don't know how simple the FindBugs one is, but that certainly looks
at all (Java) source code.