Build system and IDE Integration

Lint4j has been designed as an embeddable framework for source code (Java 1.4) and and byte code analysis. It can be integrated into any kind of IDE or build system. Currently shipping is a commandline interface, an Ant task, and Emacs integration

Detected Problems and Enforced Contracts

• Architectual problems
• Contracts defined in the Java core API
• Java Language Constructs
• Immature code
• Performance
• Code portability
• The Serialization and Externalization contracts
• Suspicious coding and likely bugs
• Java Synchronization and Scalability
• Coding patterns that impact readability and code size
• Violations of the EJB specification