About Code conventions

Code conventions are important to programmers for a number of reasons:

* 80% of the lifetime cost of a piece of software goes to maintenance.
* Hardly any software is maintained for its whole life by the original author.
* Code conventions improve the readability of the software, allowing engineers to understand new code more quickly and thoroughly.
* If you ship your source code as a product, you need to make sure it is as well packaged and clean as any other product you create.

We used the Code Conventions for the JavaTM Programming Language

http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConvTOC.doc.html