http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/03/12/pmd_cpd.html
The list of C&P sections of the java source base is great...Dion Almaer over at O'Reilly mentioned the idea of a concept detector, as in detecting when someone writes a utility function that's been implemented by someone else already...I could go for that, but I'd like it tied in to existing opensource code bases like Jakarta Commons.
It exists. Check out PMD at http://pmd.sourceforge.net. Someone implemented
a Cut and Paste detector using it. You can launch it from JNLP.