Added a getAbstractOption() method. I am going to change the design of this

class to improve the following:

- Not have protected member variables that are accessed directly. Checkstyle
  reports this error.

- By default the mOption member is not initialised to a default value. This is
  causing strange behaviour in the EmptyBlockCheck when no option is specified,
  as it does nothing. It should default to statement.

src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/AbstractOptionCheck.java

@@ -44,4 +44,14 @@ public abstract class AbstractOptionCheck
             throw new ConversionException("unable to parse " + aOption);
         }
     }
+
+    /**
+     * @return the <code>AbstractOption</code> set
+     */
+    public AbstractOption getAbstractOption()
+    {
+        // WARNING!! Do not rename this method to getOption(). It breaks
+        // BeanUtils, which will silently not call setOption. Very annoying!
+        return mOption;
+    }
 }