What if common knowledge is actually more nuanced, and old familiar things like Double-checked locking are quite controversial? Examining the code of real projects gives this kind of thought. In...
Apache NetBeans is one of the first IDEs for Java. It has been supported for nearly 30 years. Recently, Apache NetBeans 21 was released. We've decided to check the source code of such a...
Have you ever wondered about game engines written in Java? jMonkeyEngine is such an engine, and a popular one. In this article, we will look at it and check its source code for errors. We may...
In most cases, you can solve a task in an intuitive, procedural way. However, the simplest option isn't always the best. I invite you to take a look at a real-world example of transforming a...
Are you a Java developer and prefer to work in VS Code? Good news! Now you can enhance code safety with the PVS-Studio extension, which helps detect errors in Java projects and much...
In this article, we check the IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition project for errors and send the fixes to its developers. A large project, an open-source base, and a static analyzer that helps...
While reviewing code or working on a new project, we can get annoyed by many things: style, approaches, quality. However, the most frustrating is the trite lack of code hygiene. Since the issue...
The developers have an endless amount of ways to make mistakes while writing code. However, sometimes we can find obvious and interesting patterns in how and where developers make mistakes...
Among the wide variety of programming languages, what our users want the most is that the PVS-Studio analyzer to start supporting JavaScript. The Rhino engine is a project that our team can use...
We present a new type of attack in which source code is maliciously encoded so that it appears different to a compiler and to the human eye. This attack exploits subtleties in text-encoding...
