http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cscope
It is often used on very large projects to find source code, functions, declarations, definitions and regular expressions given a text string.
The official site for cscope is http://cscope.sourceforge.net/
cscope can be downloaded from http://cscope.sourceforge.net/#downloads
What it does:
- Allows searching code for:
- all references to a symbol
- global definitions
- functions called by a function
- functions calling a function
- text string
- regular expression pattern
- a file
- files including a file
- Curses based (text screen)
- An information database is generated for faster searches and later reference
- The fuzzy parser supports C, but is flexible enough to be useful for C++ and Java, and for use as a generalized 'grep database' (use it to browse large text documents!)
- Has a command line mode for inclusion in scripts or as a backend to a GUI/frontend
- Runs on all flavors of Unix, plus most monopoly-controlled operating systems.
kscope is a GUI for cscope on KDE Environment.
Tutorial
How to use cscope is a nice tutorial on using cscope. This explains how cscope can be used for java code.
