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'''ESC/Java''' (and more recently '''ESC/Java2'''), the "Extended Static Checker for Java," is a [[programming tool]] that attempts to find common [[run-time error]]s in [[Java (programming language)|Java]] programs by [[Static code analysis|static analysis]] of the program text. It is based around the [[Java Modeling Language]] (JML). Users can control the amount and kinds of checking by annotating their programs with specially formatted comments or ''[[pragma]]s''.

ESC/Java was originally developed at the [[DEC Systems Research Center|Compaq Systems Research Center]] (SRC). SRC launched the project in [[1997]], after work on their original extended static checker, ESC/Modula-3, ended in [[1996]]. In [[2002]], SRC released the [[source code]] for ESC/Java and related tools.

The [[Radboud University Nijmegen|University of Nijmegen]]'s ''Security of Systems'' group has released ESC/Java2, an extended version of ESC/Java.