diff --git a/prj.el b/prj.el
index b0b5cd743..915044c58 100755
--- a/prj.el
+++ b/prj.el
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
+;; Configuration for JDEE (Java Development Environment for Emacs)
 (jde-set-project-name "checkstyle")
 (jde-set-variables
  '(jde-db-source-directories (quote ("./src/checkstyle/")))
  '(jde-global-classpath (quote ("./classes/checkstyle" "./classes/tests" "./dist/checkstyle-1.4/jakarta-regexp-1.2.jar")))
  '(jde-run-application-class "com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.Main")
  '(jde-run-option-application-args (quote ("VerifierImpl.java")))
+
+ ;; indent each level of indentation by 4 spaces
+ '(c-basic-offset 4)
 )