DCD

DCD (Dead Code Detector) is a useful tool that will help you immediately identify any bits of unusable code in your applications.

Provide a directory of compiled classes, a jar or a war file in the UI and DCD lists suspects of dead code. Dead code found can be private, package-private and even protected or public. Unread local variables, self assignments, toString on String and useless initializations are also detected. Please remember that dead code found by DCD is just suspects. DCD can not detect that reflection or other is used: ask to people who know your application and don't complain if you don't. You can read the usage manual to know how to launch and use DCD or check the FAQ if you have questions.

The search is very fast (2000 classes/s on warm files) and made by static analysis of compiled classes without running the application or loading classes. DCD uses the library ASM (licence open source, BSD) from ObjectWeb/OW2 to do the job.