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jarnotator 1.2 is out

Last Updated on Monday, 06 September 2010 11:30 Written by jarnotator Monday, 06 September 2010 11:25

A few improvement here and there:

gracefully handle empty input directories
speedup loading of analysis dependencies
reduce memory requirements
performance increase during analysis
basic reporting

Take a look in the download area for the standalone version (which includes the Ant task). Otherwise use the maven-jarnotator-plugin to automatically download the tool.

Using jarnotator in ant builds

Last Updated on Tuesday, 31 August 2010 20:46 Written by jarnotator Saturday, 14 August 2010 11:17

Using jarnotator in an Ant build

Since jarnotator provides a Ant task it can be used directly from within Apache Ant build scripts. The Ant task provides all the jarnotator options. All in all the Ant task fairly easy to use. Analyzing your classes as part of a build is trivial.

The necessary setup to use the jarnotator task is that of any other external Ant task. The remainder of this page briefly outlines how to get started. For more detailed information please refer to the Apache Ant documentation related to the use of external Ant tasks.

Using the jarnotator maven plugin

Last Updated on Sunday, 05 September 2010 07:32 Written by jarnotator Saturday, 14 August 2010 09:28

Adding jarnotator to your maven builds is a straightforward process that takes less than 5 minutes. In this short document you'll see how to add the jarnotator plugin to your maven builds and have it analyze your bytecode after every successful compilation of your code.

What jarnotator does in less than 1 minute

Last Updated on Friday, 27 August 2010 06:12 Written by jarnotator Thursday, 19 August 2010 09:33

NullPointerException-s still plague the java world. Commercial programs that throw such exceptions from time to time are unfortunately not so rare. It is here that jarnotator steps in to help addressing this problem. Described in what should amount to less than a minute worth of reading follows what jarnatotor does.

jarnotator on the command line

Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 August 2010 20:14 Written by jarnotator Monday, 16 August 2010 10:01

The jarnotator tool aims at being easy to use. To that end it is also possible to invoke jarnotator on the command line. The command line tools support all the parameters as its ant task and maven2 plugin counterparts.

The command line tool is ideally suited to analyse third party jars since you are less likely to build those from source.