Tim Quinn wrote on 07/27/11 12:24 PM:
>
> 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.
No, it reads class files.
And it's somewhat of a cheat - the maven plugin just constructs the
command line to call the external FindBugs program.