Bytecode Analysis for Checking Java Access Modifiers

The access modifiers for Java are a mechanism for information hiding and therefore especially important for large projects. An access modifier that is too restrictive is reported as a compilation error. An access modifier that could be more restrictive is however not reported at all. On the long run, changes to a project lead to less restrictive modifiers, if the programmer does not actively work against it. This project is about building a bytecode analysis tool for checking the access modifiers and giving a report to the programmer, where his access modifiers could be more restrictive.