The out-of-the-box Eclipse distro does include some static analysis stuff, but it's turned off by default. Preferences->Java->Compiler->Errors/Warnings. Under

The out-of-the-box Eclipse distro does include some static analysis stuff, but it's turned off by default. Preferences->Java->Compiler->Errors/Warnings. Under "Potential Programming Problems", you can alert on such things as guaranteed NPEs, etc.