The current eclipse integration is fairly unusable in large projects for many reasons:
Computing, browsing and correcting violations:
- Its not possible to enforce an automatically update of violations when a java source file is save --- Preferences: "Java -> Editor -> Save Actions" should offer that
- Its not possible to filter or sort violations in violation overview --- It should be possible to sort violations by type (like its possible for build in java errors and warnings), additionally a type based filter would be nice
- Its not possible to double-click a violation in violation overview to jump directly to the line of source code causes them --- Its horrible to do such a basic step in may clicks in different views.
- Its not possible to jump from a violation to the configuration of that violation type via context menu (right click) - That's a I would like to do very often to adjust the setting to my needs.
Configurations issues: Generally the view is complicated to handle because:
- No search available
- Some columns are displayed way too narrow and its not possible to enlarge them (e.g. priority drop-down)
- Missing grouping of violations - best thing possible is to sort them by name and hope the named in a proper way
Things I missed:
- Violations have configurable values should state the violation value and the limit set (e.g. maximal lines per method set to 10 - violation should state the lines the violating method has)