Code Analysis Tools and Inter-Type-Declarations

Question

I have a maven project generated by Spring Roo and use several tools (checkstyle, pmd etc.) to collect information about my project. (namely I am using codehaus' sonar for this)

Roo makes heavy use of AspectJ Inter Type Declarations (ITD) to seperate concerns like persistence, javabeans-getter/setters etc.

These ITDs are woven in at compile-time so tools like checkstyle and pmd (who work on source-level) have a lot of false positives.

The only solution I currently see, is to deactivate checks for Classes that use ITDs.

Any better ideas?

Answer 1

This answer would not help you right now, but hopefully it can be of interest for you, as it promises solution for your problem in a near future. I don't know whether you know IntelliJ IDEA - Java IDE from JetBrains, but there is already work being done in this direction, and here is the link to the dedicated issue that you might want to follow: http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/IDEA-26959. Just set a watch on it - and get notified when the feature is implemented. IntelliJ IDEA provides really powerful SCA. So, ITD support should be of a high quality as well.

Answer 2

Doubt it will be a "niche problem" for much longer :-) Hopefully the tool vendors will look at the necessary enhancements.