Code Analysis Tools and Inter-Type-Declarations

Question

I have a maven project generated by Spring Roo and use several tools (checkstyle, pmd etc.) to collect information about my project. (namely I am using codehaus\' sonar for this

Answer 1

This answer would not help you right now, but hopefully it can be of interest for you, as it promises solution for your problem in a near future. I don't know whether you know IntelliJ IDEA - Java IDE from JetBrains, but there is already work being done in this direction, and here is the link to the dedicated issue that you might want to follow: http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/IDEA-26959. Just set a watch on it - and get notified when the feature is implemented. IntelliJ IDEA provides really powerful SCA. So, ITD support should be of a high quality as well.