我会让运行中的系统保持代码使用的日志，然后开始检查几个月或几年没有使用的代码。

例如，如果您对未使用的类感兴趣，那么所有的类都可以在创建实例时记录日志。然后，一个小脚本可以将这些日志与完整的类列表进行比较，以找到未使用的类。

Of course, if you go at the method level you should keep performance in mind. For example, the methods could only log their first use. I dont know how this is best done in Java. We have done this in Smalltalk, which is a dynamic language and thus allows for code modification at runtime. We instrument all methods with a logging call and uninstall the logging code after a method has been logged for the first time, thus after some time no more performance penalties occur. Maybe a similar thing can be done in Java with static boolean flags...

Eclipse可以显示/突出显示无法访问的代码。JUnit可以向您显示代码覆盖率，但是您需要进行一些测试，并且必须决定是否缺少相关的测试，或者代码确实没有使用过。

用户覆盖工具，例如EMMA。但它不是静态工具(也就是说，它需要通过回归测试实际运行应用程序，并通过所有可能的错误情况，这是不可能的:))

尽管如此，EMMA还是非常有用的。

有一些工具可以分析代码并提供代码覆盖率数据。这可以让您看到(当代码运行时)调用了多少代码。您可以使用任何这些工具来找出您有多少孤立代码。

我很惊讶这里竟然没有提到ProGuard。这是目前最成熟的产品之一。

ProGuard is a free Java class file shrinker, optimizer, obfuscator, and preverifier. It detects and removes unused classes, fields, methods, and attributes. It optimizes bytecode and removes unused instructions. It renames the remaining classes, fields, and methods using short meaningless names. Finally, it preverifies the processed code for Java 6 or for Java Micro Edition. Some uses of ProGuard are: Creating more compact code, for smaller code archives, faster transfer across networks, faster loading, and smaller memory footprints. Making programs and libraries harder to reverse-engineer. Listing dead code, so it can be removed from the source code. Retargeting and preverifying existing class files for Java 6 or higher, to take full advantage of their faster class loading.

下面是列表死代码的示例:https://www.guardsquare.com/en/products/proguard/manual/examples#deadcode

有一个Java项目-死代码检测器(DCD)。对于源代码，它似乎工作得不太好，但对于.jar文件-它真的很好。另外，您可以通过类和方法进行过滤。