Question

I have two Eclipse projects: one that depends upon a certain library (android.jar) and one that is more abstract and doesn’t contain that dependency.

I am in the process of migrating all classes that have no dependencies on the package, in my case android.*, to the more abstract project. Is there a Eclipse feature that can help automate the move?

Ideally, there would be feature that directly lets you automatically search for and move files that can be relocated to a new project. It would find files that that are:

• independent of a specified package (with wildcards)
• independent of other files within the same project that are dependent on the same package (in other words, no indirect dependencies on the package)

Answer 1

I submitted an Eclipse enhancement request to support such a refactoring. In the meantime, I found some promising tools to help with the decoupling and dependency analysis.

• eDepend is a dependency viewer plugin that includes a
  Class/Package dependency diagram that displays elements dependencies,
  relationships with libraries/other projects and dependency cycles. It
  can also list find classes that caused the dependencies.
• STAN structure analysis for Java
• nWire
• Class Dependency Analyzer
• Dependency Finder

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