deadcode4j v1.3 released

I recently released deadcode4j v1.3. It is available via Maven central, so it is conveniently available for your Maven project.

What's new?

Two now analysis modes were added:

• Classes annotated with Spring annotations like @Component or @Repository (amongst others) are considered to be live code
• Classes annotated with JEE annotations like @ManagedBean, @Named or @StaticMetamodel are considered to be live code

Additionally, you can specify which annotations mark classes as live code, and configure a custom XML analysis such that an XML element's text content or an attribute is considered to be a class in use. This should help enormously to reduce the number of false positives being recognized.

How to use

It's so simple: go to the console, navigate to your Maven project, type
  mvn de.is24.mavenplugins:deadcode4j-maven-plugin:find -Dmaven.test.skip=true
and see what it finds.

Hop on over to GitHub to learn more, browse the code, or contribute.

Looking for reference projects & users

Currently I'm using the big legacy application of my employer as a reference project. This is ok, as there are still some false positives, providing me with a feature list for a couple of more releases. However, I'd love to analyze some more projects to get even more feedback. So, if you know of an (open source) candidate I can analyze or if you are using deadcode4j for yourself and want something added or you have some nice ideas, please comment!