How to identify a class without anything inside it (empty class)

Question

Let's say I have a class like below

public class ClassDemo {
/*
   private String getData() {
      String s = "testClass";
      return s;
   }
*/
}

In the above class the only method it has was commented out. This is literally useless. Since I have a lot of classes in a package it's not easy to identify as there is no dependency on this class or methods inside this class.

I use Maven to build. Is there a way to identify such classes?

I understand it's possible to achieve that using eclipse. But is there a way to detect that in build tools like Maven, Ant etc?

http://www.ucdetector.org/ – Suresh Atta Oct 14 '15 at 18:54 — Suresh Atta, Oct 14 '15 at 18:54

score -1 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 26 '19 at 21:05

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The class named java.lang.Class has a lot of goodies available, such as getFields(), getConstructors(), getMethods(), getClasses(), getInterfaces(), getAnnotations()... etc. If the length of the array is zero, then there is none in that class.

Edit: Just use the getClass() method in java.lang.Object

edited Jul 26 '19 at 21:05

GalAbra

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answered Oct 14 '15 at 19:00

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And this was downvoted because....? – user3376587 Oct 14 '15 at 19:51

How to identify a class without anything inside it (empty class)

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