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Hi all

FYI: We are using WSAD 5.0 as our IDE.

Is there a simple (perhaps automated) way to find all methods in a
project that are not referenced by any other methods/classes? I'm sure
that there are some in our project, but short of checking each method
individually, I don't know how to get at them.

rogue chameleon

Rogue Chameleon wrote
> FYI: We are using WSAD 5.0 as our IDE.
>
> Is there a simple (perhaps automated) way to find all methods in a
> project that are not referenced by any other methods/classes? I'm sure
> that there are some in our project, but short of checking each method
> individually, I don't know how to get at them.
>
> rogue chameleon
>

In Menu Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Compiler -> Problems
is possible to set:
unused private types, methods or fields:
Warning

This works only for private methods, but for other scopes.

It's possible to using public methods per reflection.
This is the reason for no checking this methods.

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> Is there a simple (perhaps automated) way to find all methods in a
> project that are not referenced by any other methods/classes? I'm sure
> that there are some in our project, but short of checking each method
> individually, I don't know how to get at them.
You should look at ProGuard - it's an optimisation tool that does that -
but to the compiled class-files, though. However, I reckon you can ask
it to tell which methods are unused...

// Martin Egholm

Thanks for the tips!