ronin

After reading the generally positve post about Find Bugs from the Hibernate group blog. I thought I’d give it a go. I used the command line version, it seemed to be the easiest way to get going, and it was, very easy. The results on a small body of code were interesting and valuable.

I think I’ll reserve real judgement unitil after I try the Eclipse plugin. I think running tools like this apart from the IDE or during the build are Ok, but more often than not they are ignored by the majority of developers. Having them flag warnings/errors in the IDE though makes people pay attention, and that’s the real value.