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<title>Chapter 14. Acknowledgments</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="FindBugs™ Manual"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="FindBugs™ Manual"><link rel="prev" href="license.html" title="Chapter 13. License"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 14. Acknowledgments</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="license.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> </td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" title="Chapter 14. Acknowledgments"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="acknowledgments"></a>Chapter 14. Acknowledgments</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="acknowledgments.html#d0e3629">1. Contributors</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="acknowledgments.html#d0e3752">2. Software Used</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" title="1. Contributors"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="d0e3629"></a>1. Contributors</h2></div></div></div><p><span class="application">FindBugs</span> was originally written by Bill Pugh (<code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:pugh@cs.umd.edu">pugh@cs.umd.edu</a>></code>).
David Hovemeyer (<code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:daveho@cs.umd.edu">daveho@cs.umd.edu</a>></code>) implemented some of the
detectors, added the Swing GUI, and is a co-maintainer.</p><p>Mike Fagan (<code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:mfagan@tde.com">mfagan@tde.com</a>></code>) contributed the <span class="application">Ant</span> build script,
the <span class="application">Ant</span> task, and several enhancements and bug fixes to the GUI.</p><p>Germano Leichsenring contributed Japanese translations of the bug
summaries.</p><p>David Li contributed the Emacs bug report format.</p><p>Peter D. Stout contributed recursive detection of Class-Path
attributes in analyzed Jar files, German translations of
text used in the Swing GUI, and other fixes.</p><p>Peter Friese wrote the <span class="application">FindBugs</span> Eclipse plugin.</p><p>Rohan Lloyd contributed several Mac OS X enhancements,
bug detector improvements,
and maintains the Fink package for <span class="application">FindBugs</span>.</p><p>Hiroshi Okugawa translated the <span class="application">FindBugs</span> manual and
more of the bug summaries into Japanese.</p><p>Phil Crosby enhanced the Eclipse plugin to add a view
to display the bug details.</p><p>Dave Brosius fixed a number of bugs, added user preferences
to the Swing GUI, improved several bug detectors, and
contributed the string concatenation detector.</p><p>Thomas Klaeger contributed a number of bug fixes and
bug detector improvements.</p><p>Andrei Loskutov made a number of improvements to the
Eclipse plugin.</p><p>Brian Goetz contributed a major refactoring of the
visitor classes to improve readability and understandability.</p><p> Pete Angstadt fixed several problems in the Swing GUI.</p><p>Francis Lalonde provided a task resource file for the
FindBugs Ant task.</p><p>Garvin LeClaire contributed support for output in
Xdocs format, for use by Maven.</p><p>Holger Stenzhorn contributed improved German translations of items
in the Swing GUI.</p><p>Juha Knuutila contributed Finnish translations of items
in the Swing GUI.</p><p>Tanel Lebedev contributed Estonian translations of items
in the Swing GUI.</p><p>Hanai Shisei (ruimo) contributed full Japanese translations of
bug messages, and text used in the Swing GUI.</p><p>David Cotton contributed Fresh translations for bug
messages and for the Swing GUI.</p><p>Michael Tamm contributed support for the "errorProperty" attribute
in the Ant task.</p><p>Thomas Kuehne improved the German translation of the Swing GUI.</p><p>Len Trigg improved source file support for the Emacs output mode.</p><p>Greg Bentz provided a fix for the hashcode/equals detector.</p><p>K. Hashimoto contributed internationalization fixes and several other
bug fixes.</p><p>
Glenn Boysko contributed support for ignoring specified local
variables in the dead local store detector.
</p><p>
Jay Dunning contributed a detector to find equality comparisons
of floating-point values, and overhauled the analysis summary
report and its representation in the saved XML format.
</p><p>
Olivier Parent contributed updated French translations for bug descriptions and
Swing GUI.
</p><p>
Chris Nappin contributed the <code class="filename">plain.xsl</code>
stylesheet.
</p><p>
Etienne Giraudy contributed the <code class="filename">fancy.xsl</code> and <code class="filename">fancy-hist.xsl</code>
stylesheets, and made improvements to the <span class="command"><strong>-xml:withMessages</strong></span>
option.
</p><p>
Takashi Okamoto fixed bugs in the project preferences dialog
in the Eclipse plugin, and contributed to its internationalization and localization.
</p><p>Thomas Einwaller fixed bugs in the project preferences dialog in the Eclipse plugin.</p><p>Jeff Knox contributed support for the warningsProperty attribute
in the Ant task.</p><p>Peter Hendriks extended the Eclipse plugin preferences,
and fixed a bug related to renaming the Eclipse plugin ID.</p><p>Mark McKay contributed an Ant task to launch the findbugs frame.</p><p>Dieter von Holten (dvholten) contributed
some German improvements to findbugs_de.properties.</p><p>If you have contributed to <span class="application">FindBugs</span>, but aren't mentioned above,
please send email to <code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:findbugs@cs.umd.edu">findbugs@cs.umd.edu</a>></code> (and also accept
our humble apologies).</p></div><div class="sect1" title="2. Software Used"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="d0e3752"></a>2. Software Used</h2></div></div></div><p><span class="application">FindBugs</span> uses several open-source software packages, without which its
development would have been much more difficult.</p><div class="sect2" title="2.1. BCEL"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="d0e3759"></a>2.1. BCEL</h3></div></div></div><p><span class="application">FindBugs</span> includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation
(<a class="ulink" href="http://www.apache.org/" target="_top">http://www.apache.org/</a>).
Specifically, it uses the <a class="ulink" href="http://jakarta.apache.org/bcel/" target="_top">Byte Code
Engineering Library</a>.</p></div><div class="sect2" title="2.2. ASM"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="d0e3772"></a>2.2. ASM</h3></div></div></div><p><span class="application">FindBugs</span> uses the <a class="ulink" href="http://asm.objectweb.org/" target="_top">ASM</a>
bytecode framework, which is distributed under the following license:</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p>
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