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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
+    "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.0//EN"
+    "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_0.dtd">
+
+<!--
+
+  A Checkstyle configuration that checks the coding conventions of
+  the Community OpenORB project. Many Apache Jakarta projects like
+  Avalon or Turbine use very similar conventions.
+
+  Interesting techniques in this configuration:
+  - use property expansion to find the header file
+  - multiple instantiation of the MethodLengthCheck for different Token types
+
+  This configuration includes rules taken from
+
+  the Java Language Specification at
+  http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/index.html
+
+  the Sun Code Conventions at
+  http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/
+
+  the Javadoc guidelines at
+  http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/index.html
+
+  the JDK Api documentation
+  http://java.sun.com/j2se/docs/api/index.html
+
+  the OpenORB coding conventions at
+  http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/common/code-standards.html
+
+  some best practices
+
+-->
+
+<module name="Checker">
+
+  <property name="basedir" value="${basedir}"/>
+
+  <module name="TreeWalker">
+
+    <!-- naming conventions, the CORBA spec includes method names with underscores so we allow them here -->
+    <module name="ConstantName">           <property name="format" value="^[A-Z](_?[A-Z0-9]+)*$"/></module>
+    <module name="MethodName">             <property name="format" value="^[a-z](_?[a-zA-Z0-9]+)*$"/></module>
+    <module name="LocalFinalVariableName"> <property name="format" value="^[a-z](_?[a-zA-Z0-9]+)*$"/></module>
+    <module name="LocalVariableName">      <property name="format" value="^[a-z](_?[a-zA-Z0-9]+)*$"/></module>
+    <module name="MemberName">             <property name="format" value="^m_[a-z](_?[a-zA-Z0-9])*$"/></module>
+    <module name="ParameterName">          <property name="format" value="^[a-z](_?[a-zA-Z0-9]+)*$"/></module>
+    <module name="TypeName">               <property name="format" value="^[A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$"/></module>
+    <module name="StaticVariableName">     <property name="format" value="^s_[a-z](_?[a-zA-Z0-9])*$"/></module>
+    <module name="PackageName">            <property name="format" value="^[a-z]+(\.[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z_0-9]*)*$"/></module>
+
+    <!-- code layout -->
+    <module name="RightCurly">             <property name="option" value="alone"/></module>
+    <module name="MethodLeftCurly">        <property name="option" value="nl"/></module>
+    <module name="OtherLeftCurly">         <property name="option" value="nl"/></module>
+    <module name="TypeLeftCurly">          <property name="option" value="nl"/></module>
+    <module name="NeedBraces"/>
+    <module name="OperatorWrap"/>
+
+    <!-- whitespace settings -->
+    <module name="NoWhitespaceAfter"/>
+    <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"/>
+    <module name="WhitespaceAfter"/>
+    <module name="WhitespaceAround"/>
+
+
+
+    <!-- JavaDoc guidelines -->
+    <!-- <module name="JavadocMethod"><property name="scope" value="protected"/></module> -->
+    <!-- <module name="JavadocVariable"><property name="scope" value="protected"/></module> -->
+    <module name="JavadocType">
+      <property name="scope" value="protected"/>
+      <property name="authorFormat" value="^.+$"/> <!-- don't require email to avoid spam -->
+      <property name="versionFormat" value="^\$Revision.*\$$"/> <!-- CVS Keyword -->
+    </module>
+
+
+
+    <!-- JLS -->
+    <module name="RedundantModifier"/>
+    <module name="Modifier"/>
+    <module name="UpperEll"/>
+
+
+
+    <!-- Api Doc -->
+
+    <!-- override hashCode whenever you override equals() -->
+    <module name="EqualsHashCode"/>
+
+    <!-- don't create new instances of Boolean, use Boolean.TRUE/FALSE or Boolean.valueOf() instead -->
+    <module name="IllegalInstantiation"><property name="classes" value="java.lang.Boolean"/></module>
+
+
+
+    <!-- best practices -->
+
+    <!-- don't allow empty blocks (in particular catch blocks) -->
+    <module name="EmptyBlock"><property name="option" value="text"/></module>
+
+    <!-- avoid inner assignments -->
+    <module name="InnerAssignment"/>
+
+    <!-- don't allow imports from the sun.* package hierarchy -->
+    <module name="IllegalImport"/>
+
+    <!-- don't allow public members except in private record like classes,
+         the members have special names there -->
+    <module name="VisibilityModifier"><property name="publicMemberPattern" value ="^f[a-zA-Z0-9]*$"/></module>
+
+    <!-- simplify your code -->
+    <module name="RedundantImport"/>
+    <module name="UnusedImports"/>
+    <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression"/>
+    <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn"/>
+
+    <!-- flag reminder comments -->
+    <module name="TodoComment"/>
+
+    <!-- enforce length limits, different settings for method and ctor length -->
+    <module name="LineLength"><property name="max" value="100"/></module>
+    <module name="MethodLength"><property name="tokens" value="METHOD_DEF"/><property name="max" value="300"/></module>
+    <module name="MethodLength"><property name="tokens" value="CTOR_DEF"/><property name="max" value="500"/></module>
+    <module name="FileLength"><property name="max" value="2800"/></module>
+
+    <!-- don't allow tabs -->
+    <module name="TabCharacter"/>
+
+    <!-- enforce License Header -->
+    <module name="Header"><property name="headerFile" value="${basedir}/../../tools/etc/LICENSE.txt"/></module>
+
+  </module>
+
+  <!-- enforce package documentation -->
+  <module name="PackageHtml"/>
+
+</module>