Can findbugs detect unused public methods

Question

Is it possible to detect unused methods in a source tree using FindBugs? I see some posts on SO where users are claiming to do that, some others asking how to do this in FB

Answer 1

as a member of the FindBugs team I can tell you that unfortunately FindBugs does not do this. If you search through the bug patterns on our website, the only mentions of "unused" detectors is for unused fields.