On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 3:22 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1 October 2010 22:54, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In Mahout, we have found that IntelliJ (which is usually like Eclipse, > but > > more thorough) does not warn on the same things > > that findbugs, pmd or checkstyle warn on. We haven't been able to force > > that behavior very well, either. That means that > > we have to use a combination of methods to drive down warnings. > > > > In general, the quality of the maven mediated warnings is much lower than > > the quality of the IDE based warnings although > > Findbugs (Maven) and Findbugs (IDE) should report the same problems. > However, it's a lot easier to fix the problems when using an IDE.
Findbugs should be consistent, but IntelliJ has its own set of warnings independent of FindBugs. I can't comment on eclipse having never used it, but it was my impression that it had more than just FindBugs.
