SRC Technical Note 2000-002 SRC Technical Note 2000-002The Compaq Extended Static Checker for Java (ESC/Java) is a programming tool that attempts to find common run-time errors in Java programs by static analysis of the program text. Users can control the amount and kinds of checking that ESC/Java performs by annotating their programs with specially formatted comments called pragmas. This manual is designed to serve both as an introduction to ESC/Java and as a reference manual. It starts by providing an overview of ESC/Java through an illustrative example of its use and a summary of its features, and then goes on to document all the pragmas supported by ESC/Java and all the kinds of warnings that it generates. Appendices provide a brief sketch of ESC/Java's implementation, information about obtaining ESC/Java, and some discussion of its limitations.
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