Building J2EE Application, Java Application Design : OptimalAdvisor is a design and code analysis tool that delivers insight and advice into the code structure and effectiveness of Java applications. This helps developers to better understand code, assess and monitor code quality, and improve application design.

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Today’s J2EE developer is confronted with many challenges, including:

• understanding the vast size and complexity of the typical J2EE application
• maintaining an application with a poor and/or complex design
• delivering quality code before an application is delivered to QA.

Fortunately, Compuware OptimalAdvisor can help. OptimalAdvisor is a design and code analysis tool that delivers insight and advice into the code structure and effectiveness of Java applications. This helps developers to better:

• understand code
• assess and monitor code quality
• improve application design
• enforce coding standards
• automate technical documentation of Java code and design
• refactor code based on the design analysis.

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Because it is context-driven, OptimalAdvisor delivers the right advice at the right time—even automating certain tasks to improve code quality. This flexibility makes OptimalAdvisor ideal for developers by helping them:

• learn from expert advice
• implement time-saving transformations on source code (including refactorings)
• review and learn about new code, and take full advantage of code libraries
• assess code quality of products.

What's new in OptimalAdvisor 4.1

• Comprehensive quality metric reporting
• Support of PMD 3.5

Other features in OptimalAdvisor:

• Customize rules
• Integration with PMD open source project
• Nearly 200 rules to choose from
• J2EE metrics
• JDK 5.0 support
• Many additional user-interface improvements

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