Find unused resource files (.jsp, .xhtml, images) in Eclipse

Question

I'm developing a large web application in Eclipse and some of the resources (I'm talking about files, NOT code) are getting deprecated, however, I don't know which are and I'm including them in my ending war file.

I know Eclipse recognizes file paths into its directory because I can access the link to an image or other page while I'm editing one of my xhtml pages (using Control). But is there a way to localize the unused resources in order to remove them?

Answer 1

Following these 3 steps would work for sites with a relatively finite number of dynamic pages:

1. Install your site on a filesystem mount'ed with atime (access time).

2. Try harvesting the whole site with wget.

3. Use find to see which files were not accessed recently.

Done.