I\'ve tried the Metrics plugin and although it\'s nice and all, it\'s not what my boss is looking for. It counts a line with just one }
as a line and he doesn\'t wa
ProjectCodeMeter counts LLOC (logical lines of code) exactly as you described (only effective lines). it integrates into eclipse as external code metrics tool, it's not real-time though, it generates a report.actually it counts many source code metrics such as complexity, arithmetic intricacy, hard coded strings, numeric constants.. even estimates development time in hours.