[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Created: (JBIDE-4044) Review unused strings from Messages classes as reported by UCDetector

[Sean Flanigan (JIRA)]

Review unused strings from Messages classes as reported by UCDetector
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                 Key: JBIDE-4044
                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBIDE-4044
             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
          Issue Type: Task
          Components: Cleanup
    Affects Versions: 3.1.0
            Reporter: Sean Flanigan


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 before localisation begins.

I think it should be safe to remove these fields, since any direct usage will be caught by the compiler as soon as we try to remove it (and wouldn't have been listed by UCDetector anyway, unless it is completely broken), and it would be extremely unlikely for anyone to access a Messages field by reflection.

If you want to run UCDetector yourself, select one or more plugin projects (not features, not non-Java projects), select UCDetector/Detect unnecessary code, and wait.  I recommend configuring Eclipse's Problems view to show problems of type "UCDetector Marker (References)" whose description contains 'Field "'.  The relevant problems are of the form 'Field SomethingMessages.SOME_KEY" has 0 references'.  

[1] http://ucdetector.sourceforge.net/

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