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

Well, since you want to go down this route despite warnings from the others who've responded :), you can copy and modify the UPM detector to do what you need.

Its really simple to write a detector for FindBugs (especially when you've got a great starting point). Read this to get you started