Re: [Ant-contrib-developers] <cc> rework, Java coding styles

[Stefan B. <bo...@bo...>]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Curt Arnold <Cur...@hy...> wrote:

> On another note, quite a bit of the existing code used underscore
> prefixed names (_foo) for member variables and placed member
> variable declarations at the bottom of the class definition.  Both
> are contrary to my reading of the current Java Code conventions

They are.

> to which I believe that tasks integrated into Ant must adhere.

Formally you are correct, but Ant committers are known to let
different coding styles slip through.

> Is there any publically available checker for code conventions
> conformance?  I've looked before and haven't found one.

Several, but I've never used one myself.  There is a sourceforge
project named checkstyle which can be run via an Ant task as well (see
Ant's external tools page), AFAIK it can be adapted to several styles
but will use the current Java Coding Conventions as its default.

> I'm trying to adhere to the conventions on new classes that I'm
> adding and classes that I've seriously modified so the style within
> any individual .java file is consistent.

Maybe committing it in two passes would be better - one to get the
style right and one where others can easily identify your code
changes.

Personally I tend to keep the style of the original and even try to
mimic it when I add code, with some exceptions - tabs are getting
killed no matter what.

Stefan