[jbosstools-dev] Re: Running UCDetector to remove obsolete resourcebundle messages

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On first glance it looks very much like false positives - create the 
jira and we'll look into it.

/max
> Hi,
>
> I've run UCDetector [1] against the codebase, and it has found 294
> fields in *Messages classes which have 0 references.  I've attached a
> list (views well in oocalc).  I'd like to remove them, along with their
> corresponding resourcebundle properties, to reduce the number of
> translatable strings.
>
> UCDetector also finds lots of unused methods and classes (which may be
> referencing even more obsolete strings), but I'm wary of false
> positives, so I won't try to tackle them.  But if anyone else wants to
> run UCDetector against their code, I would appreciate it!  (Or I could
> export a larger TSV file if you don't feel like installing UCDetector.)
>
>
> 1. Is removing those messages a bad idea, for some reason I can't think of?
> 2. Should I do this under JBIDE-3557, or should I create a new task,
> perhaps a sub-task?
>
>
> [1] http://ucdetector.sourceforge.net/
>
>
> Sean.
>
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