It's been about three months that I am involved with the development of a legacy Java-based project. The product has been in development for about ten years and for reasons that we all know it contains a lot of copy-and-pasted chunks of code.

Luckily enough, a few weeks ago I saw this ad about a product called Atomiq that given a project directory produces a neat navigable report about duplicate code it can find inside it. Unsurprisingly, the generated report was not something one would like to see as it unearthed massive amounts of duplicate code in our project.

At the moment we are busy completing the last final features of the new version of our product and it is difficult, if not impossible, to buy time for eliminating the duplicate codes. However after delivering the next release of our product, if I can convince our manager, I'll start refactoring our code base and eliminatie as much duplicate code as I can and Atomiq, for sure, is going to be a very handy tool throughout the process!

If you're interested to learn more about Atomiq be sure to check its screencasts on YouTube.