Java News from Monday, November 19, 2007

Bill Pugh of the University of Maryland has released FindBugs 1.3.0, an automated open source tool for finding potential bugs in Java code. New rules in this release include:

• NoteDirectlyRelevantTypeQualifiers
• ReflectiveClasses
• SynchronizationOnSharedBuiltinConstant
• OverridingEqualsNotSymmetrical
• CheckTypeQualifiers
• EQ_DOESNT_OVERRIDE_EQUALS
• SAME_SIMPLE_NAME_AS_SUPERCLASS
• SAME_SIMPLE_NAME_AS_INTERFACE
• UNRELATED_TYPES_USING_POINTER_EQUALITY
• DEAD_STORE_OF_CLASS_LITERAL