This fixes:
- negating annotation style if() pointcuts doesn't work
- annotation style if() pointcut not able to use a binding
  that is not exposed

Fixes #120,#122

Generics make code more type-safe and allows removing ugly type-casts.

Methods Integer.parseInt/Boolean.parseBoolean should be preferred over Integer.valueOf/Boolean.valueOf/ if final result is primitive.
They are generally faster and generate less garbage.

Trailing whitespaces are useless. Most of code-styles forbids them. Most of editors always trim them on save.
I propose to clean up project from trailing whitespaces in all java files at once.

StringBuffer is a legacy synchronized class. StringBuilder is a direct replacement to StringBuffer which generally have better performance.

This was required by the Eclipse team as one precondition for the next
release.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kriegisch <Alexander@Kriegisch.name>

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kriegisch <Alexander@Kriegisch.name>

Signed-off-by: Lars Grefer <eclipse@larsgrefer.de>

Signed-off-by: Lars Grefer <eclipse@larsgrefer.de>

Reports on declarations of Collection variables made by using the collection class as the type, rather than an appropriate interface.

Signed-off-by: Lars Grefer <eclipse@larsgrefer.de>

Reports Collection.addAll() and Map.putAll() calls after instantiation of a collection using a constructor call without arguments. Such constructs can be replaced with a single call to a parametrized constructor which simplifies code. Also for some collections the replacement might be more performant.

Signed-off-by: Lars Grefer <eclipse@larsgrefer.de>

There are two styles to convert a collection to an array: either using a pre-sized array (like c.toArray(new String[c.size()])) or using an empty array (like c.toArray(new String[0]).
In older Java versions using pre-sized array was recommended, as the reflection call which is necessary to create an array of proper size was quite slow. However since late updates of OpenJDK 6 this call was intrinsified, making the performance of the empty array version the same and sometimes even better, compared to the pre-sized version. Also passing pre-sized array is dangerous for a concurrent or synchronized collection as a data race is possible between the size and toArray call which may result in extra nulls at the end of the array, if the collection was concurrently shrunk during the operation.

Signed-off-by: Lars Grefer <eclipse@larsgrefer.de>

Reports the manual copying of array contents which may be replaced by calls to System.arraycopy().

Signed-off-by: Lars Grefer <eclipse@larsgrefer.de>

Reports the copying of array contents to a collection where each element is added individually using a for loop. Such constructs may be replaced by a call to Collection.addAll(Arrays.asList()) or Collections.addAll().

Signed-off-by: Lars Grefer <eclipse@larsgrefer.de>

Signed-off-by: Lars Grefer <eclipse@larsgrefer.de>

Signed-off-by: Lars Grefer <eclipse@larsgrefer.de>

Reports "unboxing", e.g. explicit unwrapping of wrapped primitive values. Unboxing is unnecessary under Java 5 and newer, and can be safely removed.

Signed-off-by: Lars Grefer <eclipse@larsgrefer.de>

Reports explicit boxing, i.e. wrapping of primitive values in objects. Explicit manual boxing is unnecessary under Java 5 and newer, and can be safely removed.

Signed-off-by: Lars Grefer <eclipse@larsgrefer.de>

Reports any String.indexOf() expressions which can be replaced with a call to the String.contains() method available in Java 5 and newer.

Signed-off-by: Lars Grefer <eclipse@larsgrefer.de>

Reports while loops which iterate over collections, and can be replaced with an enhanced for loop (i.e. foreach iteration syntax).

Signed-off-by: Lars Grefer <eclipse@larsgrefer.de>

Reports for loops which iterate over collections or arrays, and can be replaced with an enhanced for loop (i.e. the foreach iteration syntax).

Signed-off-by: Lars Grefer <eclipse@larsgrefer.de>