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<title>Chapter 1. Introduction</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="index.html" title="FindBugs™ Manual"><link rel="next" href="installing.html" title="Chapter 2. Installing FindBugs™"></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 1. Introduction</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="index.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="installing.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" title="Chapter 1. Introduction"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="introduction"></a>Chapter 1. Introduction</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="introduction.html#d0e67">1. Requirements</a></span></dt></dl></div><p> <span class="application">FindBugs</span>™ is a program to find bugs in Java programs. It looks for instances
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MacOS X platforms.</p><p>You should have at least 512 MB of memory to use <span class="application">FindBugs</span>.
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