The JLint Eclipse plug-in provides a convenient interface for integrating JLint(a Java code analyzer) into the Eclipse IDE.

Some features of its analysis include:

• Strings compared as object references.
• Potential deadlock and race conditions in multithreaded code.
• Access to a variable with a potential null value.
• Inherited methods with different profiles.
• Local variables shadowing others in an exterior scope.
• Missing call to super.finalize() when required.
• Type conversions that might lose precision.
• Access to indexes potentially out of range.

The plug-in captures the JLint output and generates warnings and markers for each of the reported problems. Double-clicking on the warning will lead you to the precise line of code that is affected by the problem. It comes with a JLint Ant task, to easily integrate JLint with your automated build and deploy process.