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3   <title>Chapter&nbsp;1.&nbsp;Introduction</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="FindBugs&#8482; Manual"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="FindBugs&#8482; Manual"><link rel="prev" href="index.html" title="FindBugs&#8482; Manual"><link rel="next" href="installing.html" title="Chapter&nbsp;2.&nbsp;Installing FindBugs&#8482;"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter&nbsp;1.&nbsp;Introduction</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="index.html">Prev</a>&nbsp;</td><th width="60%" align="center">&nbsp;</th><td width="20%" align="right">&nbsp;<a accesskey="n" href="installing.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" title="Chapter&nbsp;1.&nbsp;Introduction"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="introduction"></a>Chapter&nbsp;1.&nbsp;Introduction</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="introduction.html#d0e67">1. Requirements</a></span></dt></dl></div><p> <span class="application">FindBugs</span>&#8482; is a program to find bugs in Java programs.  It looks for instances
4of "bug patterns" --- code instances that are likely to be errors.</p><p> This document describes version 2.0.3 of <span class="application">FindBugs</span>.We
5are very interested in getting your feedback on <span class="application">FindBugs</span>. Please visit
6the <a class="ulink" href="http://findbugs.sourceforge.net" target="_top"><span class="application">FindBugs</span> web page</a> for
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8as information about the <span class="application">FindBugs</span> mailing lists.</p><div class="sect1" title="1.&nbsp;Requirements"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="d0e67"></a>1.&nbsp;Requirements</h2></div></div></div><p> To use <span class="application">FindBugs</span>, you need a runtime environment compatible with
9<a class="ulink" href="http://java.sun.com/j2se" target="_top">Java 2 Standard Edition</a>, version 1.5 or later.
10<span class="application">FindBugs</span> is platform independent, and is known to run on GNU/Linux, Windows, and
11MacOS X platforms.</p><p>You should have at least 512 MB of memory to use <span class="application">FindBugs</span>.
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