Find out which classes of a given API are used

Question

In a Java Project of mine, I would like to find out programmatically which classes from a given API are used. Is there a good way to do that? Through source code parsing or

Answer 1

If you use Eclipse. Try using the profiling tools. It doesn't only tells which classes are being used, but tells much more about it. The results will be something like:

There is a very good quickstart at:

http://www.eclipse.org/tptp/home/documents/tutorials/profilingtool/profilingexample_32.html