PMD

Information

PMD scans Java source code and looks for potential problems like:

Empty try/catch/finally/switch blocks
Unused local variables, parameters and private methods
Empty if/while statements
Overcomplicated expressions - unnecessary if statements, for loops that could be while loops
Classes with high Cyclomatic Complexity measurements

Example

To use the pmd target, you need to set the properties described in the Common Build Targets document.

<target name="pmd"> <ant antfile="$" target="pmd"> <property name="report.dir" value="C:\temp\myproject"/> <property name="source.dir" value="$\src"/> </ant> </target> The common target will add the directory pmd to the report dir you provided and create a report with the name pmd-report.html.