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fb-contrib		Spotbugs
	Project
1	Mentions	17
149	Stars	3,340
-	Growth	1.6%
7.7	Activity	9.6
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
Java	Language	Java
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

fb-contrib

Posts with mentions or reviews of fb-contrib. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-02.

What are some useful static analyzers for Java?
9 projects | /r/java | 2 Jan 2022

and https://github.com/mebigfatguy/fb-contrib

Spotbugs

Posts with mentions or reviews of Spotbugs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-19.

Primeiros passos no desenvolvimento Java em 2023: um guia particular
13 projects | dev.to | 19 Jan 2023
Static Code Analyzer for JAVA development: any recommendations ??
1 project | /r/AskNetsec | 8 Nov 2022

SpotBugs is pretty good.
Ask HN: What is a modern Java environment?
22 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2022

PMD, Spotbugs, Nullaway: Java linting/static analysis (https://pmd.github.io, https://spotbugs.github.io, https://github.com/uber/NullAway)
What are some useful static analyzers for Java?
9 projects | /r/java | 2 Jan 2022
Go CheckLocks Analyzer
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Dec 2021
Is there a tool to track CVEs for the software that we use?
8 projects | /r/sysadmin | 14 Dec 2021

While at it you could also point them to static code analyzers such as error_prone, spotbugs and pmd (use all 3 at once - they complement each other in detecting different issues).
SpotBugs supports SARIF that supports integration with other SAST tools
2 projects | dev.to | 16 Oct 2021

First, it's better to use SpotBugs 4.4.1 and above, that includes a fix to make SARIF report compatible with Github code scanning API requirements.
Needing to run GUI application from java docker image
1 project | /r/docker | 30 Sep 2021

RUN wget https://github.com/spotbugs/spotbugs/releases/download/4.4.1/spotbugs-4.4.1.tgz
Looking for a Static Code Analysis tool for Scala Code
2 projects | /r/cybersecurity | 28 Aug 2021

If you don’t have checkmarx/Vera code money, have you looked at https://find-sec-bugs.github.io/? It can be used with a few things such as https://spotbugs.github.io/ and sonarQ
An Incomplete List of Practical Security for Mortals
9 projects | dev.to | 6 Jul 2021

some good tools for general code analysis (Java): Sonarqube, PMD, SpotBugs

What are some alternatives?

When comparing fb-contrib and Spotbugs you can also consider the following projects:

find-sec-bugs - The SpotBugs plugin for security audits of Java web applications and Android applications. (Also work with Kotlin, Groovy and Scala projects)

SonarQube - Continuous Inspection

forbidden-apis - Policeman's Forbidden API Checker

FindBugs - The new home of the FindBugs project

NullAway - A tool to help eliminate NullPointerExceptions (NPEs) in your Java code with low build-time overhead

PMD - An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.

findbugs-slf4j - A SpotBugs/FindBugs plugin to verify usage of SLF4J

Error Prone - Catch common Java mistakes as compile-time errors

gradle-errorprone-plugin - Gradle plugin to use the error-prone compiler for Java

Checkstyle - Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. By default it supports the Google Java Style Guide and Sun Code Conventions, but is highly configurable. It can be invoked with an ANT task and a command line program.

SonarJava - :coffee: SonarSource Static Analyzer for Java Code Quality and Security

semgrep - Lightweight static analysis for many languages. Find bug variants with patterns that look like source code.