How can we find orphaned banks in the intellij idea project

Question

I found useful tools for this in eclipse, for example, in the Classpath Helper, but is there any plugin or method in intellij for finding unused jar files?

Answer 1

I am sure that you know how to use the IDEA dependency analysis tool to search for dependencies between libraries, and although this may help you a little, of course, is not enough.

The problem and the fact is that there is no way to find unused JARs through static analysis, since you can reference and create any class in any dependency by reflecting / IoC / whatnot these days.

So, the best thing you can “hope for” is a tool that can determine which JARs your code doesn’t explicitly refer to - which is curious what is missing from IDEA as far as I know (but I would really like to see it fixed point!)

Greetings

Answer 2

You really have to use maven and manually define the dependencies of each module. The Classpath Helper is an amazingly bad way of telling which banks you use.