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Bug 29402

Summary:	Refactoring support for removing unreferenced code [refactoring]
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Oyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	akiezun
Version:	2.1	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Oyvind Harboe

2003-01-13 12:11:43 EST

Over time classes accumulate obsolete code. In particular, I'd like to have 
refactoring that removes:

- unused fields
- unused methods

I suppose these sort of refactorings would have to operate on the entire 
workspace.

Comment 1 Adam Kiezun

2003-01-13 12:25:19 EST

this would need to take a set of 'entry point' as an input and
then could try 'mark and sweep' to find clusters of stuff that is not used 
anymore

if foo calls bar and bar calls foo and nobody references them, then both can be 
removed

but things like 'main' methods or plugin extension point are entry points - 
they're referenced by something else than java code

moving the suggestion (for sure useful) to later

Comment 2 Dirk Baeumer

2003-04-25 05:11:02 EDT

Exists for private members (compile error and quick assist). No further action 
planned for 3.0.

Comment 3 Denis Roy

2009-08-30 02:21:19 EDT

As of now 'LATER' and 'REMIND' resolutions are no longer supported.
Please reopen this bug if it is still valid for you.