Is there any way to statically detect broken references in a set of Java class files?

1. missinglink

   1 5 149 7.1 Java

   Build time tool for detecting link problems in java projects

   

   There's been a recent release of missing-link with support for Mult-Release JARs and running analysis on multiple projects concurrently. More info here (applies not only to Scala/sbt, so it's worth linking it here): https://old.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/lxmi4w/sbtmissinglink_032_has_been_released_multirelease/

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3. maven-dependency-versions-check-plugin

   2 1 80 0.0 Java

   Maven plugin to find dependency version conflicts

   

   We're using this maven plugin to detect version conflicts & mismatches between all the dependencies that are used in our projects; it's relatively strict but it does let you know which (potentially transitive) dependencies clash.

4. bnd

   3 3 535 9.8 Java

   Bnd/Bndtools. Tooling to build OSGi bundles including Eclipse, Maven, and Gradle plugins.

   

   It used to be that using OSGi was cumbersome, but these days most libraries have are OSGi-friendly and bnd makes it really simple to develop OSGi applications.

5. cloud-opensource-java

   4 1 155 4.9 Java

   Tools for detecting and avoiding linkage errors in GCP open source projects

   

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