Tool for Java dependency analysis

[Ingudam Manoranjan]

Has anyone come across any tool that given a class, it can give the call graph, both ways - referencing classes & dependent java classes?

I wanted to analyze codebase. Basically if I can get the list in a report the call graph of a java class, that will be the starting point for my analysis.

[Tim Holloway]

Google is your friend:

http://depfind.sourceforge.net/

As they point out, a lot of times it's easier to simply hyperlink through the chain in an IDE however. Function call graphs have not been very useful to me in object-oriented systems - I pretty much gave them up when I stopped using C.

I think I used depfind to weed out unused JARs, but that was about 2 years ago.

Also, no static analysis tool can 100% guarantee to find everything. Classloaders can load classes dynamically. A common example is JDBC driver loading.