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 ...

In general, static analysis tools offer a promising way to mitigate against the risk of defects lurking within existing, and new, Java code.

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 ...

In this step-by-step tutorial, we showed developers how to install the Checkstyle plugin for Eclipse. The plugin lets them take advantage of static code analysis integration in the early stages of the ...

The company’s annual Open Source Security and Risk Analysis report finds widespread use of open source components with high-risk vulnerabilities.