[news.eclipse.tools] Re: How to find non-referenced methods in Eclipse?

[oleg shteynbuk <oshteynbuk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Klemme wrote:
> "Johann Uhrmann" <johann.uhrmann@xxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:bbetip$tn$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > is there a plug-in or a built-in functionality in Eclipse
> > that allows to search for methods and public members that
> > are not referenced in the whole work space?
> >
> > It would be nice to detect methods that are no longer used.
>
>
> There's a warning for unused private methods.  I'm not sure whether what
> you want can be properly done: How should this module know that you are
> not building a library and in fact many public methods are not called in
> the library code?  Maybe it's worth a feature request to expand this
> warning to package visible methods.  But that might be as far as
> automation could get.
>
> If you want to know it for a single method just rename it and watch the
> compiler errors.
>
>     robert

there is also dynamic method invocation using reflection. but most users 
do not right libraries or use reflection so it make sense to have such 
warning as an option. i believe there are tools like lint for java that 
might give you just this, but i could not name anything off my hat.

oleg