Presents your 
JAVA E-NEWSLETTER for April 10, 2003

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ENFORCE CODE CONVENTIONS WITH CHECKSTYLE

The list of coding conventions you should adhere to is long and varies
depending on your current place of employment; but what doesn't vary is
that coding conventions are rarely completely followed. In day-to-day
operations, corners will be cut, documentation will lag, and 
conventions will be overlooked for the sake of timeliness.

Checkstyle is an open source tool that can help you follow your
established coding conventions .You can use it to begin refactoring existing code
as part of the nightly build process, or to check your own code after a hard day of 
coding.
http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/

Checkstyle examines your source code and reports violations of the rules
you defined. Getting started is easy because Checkstyle comes with
predefined rules for popular coding conventions .You can tweak these 
rules to fit your shop's style or set up your own rules.

If you use an IDE, you can take advantage of the third-party plug-ins
written to work with the most popular Java development environments.

Obeying your coding rules can be tedious and difficult, but it doesn't
have to be with a little help from tools such as Checkstyle.

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