Macxim is a static code analysis tool aimed at Measuring Java source code.

Macxim stores a simplified Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) representation of the source code in a relational database.

Several metrics can be extracted simply via SQL queries.

The main advantage of this approach, when compared to similar approaches, consists in the separation of two tasks that are usually found glued together:

• Source code analysis;
• Computation of software measures.

This can be quite an advantage, since while the analysis of the source code is more or less the same in many different tools, the software measures that are calculated can widely vary. The Macxim approach enables the user to add new software measures easily, reusing a full fledged analysis engine.

More information can be founded on macxim website or by looking on the online demo