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•  no working Eclipse plugin found. (authors emailed)
• argument list pattern (sec 2.2) public _ (_, String, *) : any public method that accept a String as its second argument and returns any type
• quantifiers: no, all, exists...
• anonymous class
• pattern naming (integral := byte | short | int | long)
• variable binding
• no structural matching of AST (deemed difficult because uses class files) (so can't look match on a loop for example or find all local variables in method)
• no submethod information (local vars etc)

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  read\[F\]/write\[F\] predicates to indicate whether a method reads/write to a field. Nice feature: write\[_\] tells whether method writes to a field at all. Q: How do we do this recursively? All methods within the method are not writing to fields...

• no support for generics (according to documentation)

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• doesn't detect local inner classes (local & anonymous). Only inner classes (doesn't differentiate): class in all classes
• no access to local variable declared in methods
• no support for generics.
• no support for constructors (considered as method init) 
• no AST structural matching. (e.g loops ...)
• no variable binding/unification
• set operators (union, intersection)
• support for read/write of fields references

Similar reasons to JTL.

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• All Java AST supported by logic queries. (tight symbiosis with Eclipse JDT) 
• When there isn't a dedicated predicate, the language allows to query the Eclipse semantic analyzer directly. (this solves the covariant arrays use case)
• template matching doesn't support all features. (for example generics, wildcards, try/catch blocks)

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• https://bitbucket.org/jlahoda/jackpot30/wiki/RulesLanguageAdditionalDocs
• no support for types of expr
• no support for grouping elements by a characteristic (eg overloaded methods)
• http://wiki.netbeans.org/JavaDeclarativeHintsFormat^{Image Removed}
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PMD

• http://www.ing.iac.es/~docs/external/java/pmd/rules/design.html
• http://code.google.com/p/code-cop-code/wiki/PmdRulesCodecop
• structural matching: all AST hiearchy can be queried through Xpath expression
• can't express subtype relations. E.g. assignments where RHS is supertype of left handside and different
• no variable binding
• support generic constructors but not bind it to enclosing class: //ConstructorDeclaration//TypeParameters
• no support for read/write effects

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