One Year Anniversary

I started Dependency Finder one year ago today.

Up until January 29, 2001, I was working on another home project that got so complex that I lost track of who was calling what. That's when I got the idea to build a dependency tracking tool. I read up on the .class file format and wrote the first pieces of code that parsed the constant pool. I could find class-to-class dependencies with some accuracy, but the information in the .class file promised so much more; and it was right there for the picking.

Over the following months, additional features were grafted onto the project. Once you have parsed the .class files, all kinds of things become possible.

Now, a year later, Dependency Finder is an open source project well on its way to its first release. Just a few more features, just a little more documentation ...

Jean.