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I'm using Findbugs and javax.annotation.Nonnull on method parameters. On private methods I usually add an assert line to check for nullness like private void myMethod(@Nonnull String str) { assert str != null .... Latest Netbeans version (7.3rc2) is reporting that the assert check is not necessary (because of the Nonnull annotation). I'm not fully sure this is a Netbeans bug or not. Can the assert line be removed because I specified the @Nonnull annotation ? As far as I understand, the annotation is used only during static analysis while assert is, when enabled, active during execution so the

I have integrated FindBugs plugin to fail the build in case of bugs. Then using that brilliant answer I configured FindBugs to generate html reports (xml version is barely readable). The problem is that I have failOnError property set to true , which means that the build would fail in case of bug. ..... <configuration> ..... <failOnError>true</failOnError> </configuration> And then no html report would be generated. I read about Maven build lifecycle and there is no such thing as "Execute on fail" (like finally block in Java). So, are there any possible workarounds? And shouldn't it be out-of

I have this piece of code, which is to write an Ojbect to a byte array stream: static byte[] toBytes(MyTokens tokens) throws IOException { ByteArrayOutputStream out = null; ObjectOutput s = null; try { out = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); try { s = new ObjectOutputStream(out); s.writeObject(tokens); } finally { try { s.close(); } catch (Exception e) { throw new CSBRuntimeException(e); } } } catch (Exception e) { throw new CSBRuntimeException(e); } finally { IOUtils.closeQuietly(out); } return out.toByteArray(); } However, FindBugs keeps complaining about line: s = new ObjectOutputStream(out);