Findbugs home: http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/index.html

Two very (very …) important papers about Findbugs!!!

Findbugs is Easy! by David Hovemeyer, Bill Pugh

Evaluating Static Analysis Defect Warnings On Production Software by great authors @ {cs.umd.edu, google}

Some slides to introduce Fingbugs:

Using FindBugs for Research (given at PLDI 2007)

Slides from Bill Pugh’s presentation on FindBugs (April 2009)

Using FindBugs in Anger (given at OOPSLA 2007)

Some useful experiences from IBM:

FindBugs, Part 1: Improve the quality of your code

FindBugs, Part 2: Writing custom detectors

Some useful configuration links:

CruiseControl With FindBugs

Findbugs Jenkins Plugin

Other related tools Checkstyle, PMD, Cobertura, EMMA.

Resources:

Cobertura – Instrumenting Deployment Artifact

NTP (Network Time Protocol) provides accurate and syncronised time across the Internet. This introductory article will try to show you how to use NTP to control and synchronize your system clock.
http://www.akadia.com/services/ntp_synchronize.html

This article applies to:

• Platform(s): Windows 7, Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
• Java version(s): 6.0

SYMPTOMS

Applets do not run because Java is not enabled.

CAUSE

The Java control panel is not configured to use the web browser. If Java is already installed but applets do not work, you may need to check and see if Java is enabled.

SOLUTION

To see whether your browser is configured to use Java or not, first open Windows Control Panel. From the Start menu button, select Settings, then Control Panel to open the Java Control Panel, click on the Java Coffee Cup logo icon in the Control Panel.

For Java version 6.0 and above:

1. Double-click the icon to open Java Control Panel.
2. In Java Control Panel, click the Advanced tab.
3. Click on + icon next to Default Java for browsers.
4. Make sure the box next to Internet Explorer or Mozilla is checked.
5. If it is not checked, click the checkbox to enable Java for your Web browser.
6. Click Apply.

Note: If you do not see the coffee cup icon in the Windows Control Panel, you do not have Java installed on your computer.

Reference: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/enable_panel.xml