A feature of Azul Intelligence Cloud , Code Inventory® is a cloud service that uses information inside the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to provide a comprehensive view of what code runs in production with no performance penalty. It lowers the burden from maintaining and testing unused and dead code.
A majority of software development is spent on maintenance. Maintaining unused and dead code wastes time and budget. Traditional tools like IDEs with static analyzers do not provide a complete view of the code used in production over time due to their static nature. Profilers are so overhead-intensive they cannot practically be used in production settings. Manually-intensive log line insertions provide only a partial view of unused and dead code.
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Traditional code analysis tools like profilers and IDEs do not provide a complete view of the code used due to their static nature, lack context of what code is actually invoked in production over time, or are so manually-intensive they cannot practically be used in production settings.
Static analyzers in IDE tools can only find trivial cases of unused and dead code such as private methods that are statically unreachable, and so do not scale to larger projects.
Log-line insertions are manually time-intensive and typically do not result in 100% coverage, missing much of unused and dead code.
Code Inventory® introduces no manual or performance overhead, detects what actually runs in production, and summarizes results across all JVMs over time to provide a true and accurate signal for confidently removing unused and dead code.
Yes, but information about third-party libraries is less actionable.
Data from all JVMs consolidated to create an aggregated summary.
Available now, Code Inventory® requires no changes to Java applications and is included at no additional charge for Azul Intelligence Cloud customers.
