0.1.0 Alpha 2

Alpha release of in-progress Helsing CLI

Additions/Changes from Alpha 1

• Added some missing detection for annotation, interface, and exception-based uses of classes
• Added ability to exclude file-style name patterns for classes via --exclude. Classes are still evaluated as potential "users" of other classes, but are ignored as potential dead code

Use

Helsing is currently in initial (alpha) development. It currently provides a single command, dead-class, which analyzes *.class files within an application and determines which, if any, are not currently referenced within the available source

To use, get the standalone (capsule) jar and run

java -jar <jar name> dead-classes --directory <project directory>

on a built project (built meaning the project directory contains compiled *.class files). Additionally, the --trace argument may be given a full-qualified class name, which will log additional information about the structure discovered for that class (if a use of another class isn't being detected within it), an the discovered uses of that class