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6.3 KiB
HTML
151 lines
6.3 KiB
HTML
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
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<html>
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<head>
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<title>Checkstyle Home Page</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mystyle.css">
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</head>
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<body>
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<!-- The header -->
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<table border="0" width="100%">
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<tr>
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<td>
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<font style="font-family: Courier New; font-size=36; font-weight:bold; color:#aaaaaa">Checkstyle Home Page</font>
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</td>
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<td align="right">
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NEED THE LOGO
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</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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<!-- content -->
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<table border="0" width="100%">
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<tr>
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<!--Left menu-->
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<td valign="top" align="left" nowrap="true">
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<p>Checkstyle</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#overview">Overview</a></li>
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<li><a href="#features">Features</a></li>
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<li><a href="#download">Download</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">License</a></li>
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<li><a href="#related">Related Tools</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p>Documentation</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="anttask.html">ANT Task</a></li>
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<li><a href="cmdline.html">Command Line</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p>SourceForge</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=29721">Mailing Lists</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=397078&group_id=29721&func=browse">Bug Database</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=397081&group_id=29721&func=browse">Feature Requests</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p>Developers</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/checkstyle">Project Page</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/checkstyle/">CVS Repository</a></li>
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<li>JavaDoc</li>
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</ul>
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</td>
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<td width="100%" valign="top" align="left">
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<a name="overview">
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<h2>Overview</h2>
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<p class="body">
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Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code
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that adheres to a coding standard. It automates the process
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of checking Java code to spare humans of this boring (but important)
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task. This makes it ideal for projects that want to enforce a coding
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standard.
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</p>
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<p class="body">
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By default it supports the <a href="http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/">
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Sun Code Conventions</a>. However, Checkstyle is highly configurable.
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</p>
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<p class="body">
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My experience from using a similar proprietary tool at a previous employer
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was that it increased the productivity of code reviews. This is because it
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allowed the reviewers to get on with reviewing the code and not get into
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"style" debates.
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</p>
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<a name="features"></a>
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<h2>Features</h2>
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<p class="body">The things that checkstyle checks for are:</p>
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<ul>
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<li class="body">Unused or duplicate <span class="code">import</span> statements. Note: this can be turned off.</li>
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<li class="body">Javadoc comments are defined for class, interface, variable and method declarations. Note: This can be made to check only <span class="code">public</span> and <span class="code">protected</span> declarations.</li>
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<li class="body">Javadoc tags for a method match the actual code.</li>
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<li class="body">The file starts with a specified header. This is useful to ensure that a file has a copyright notice.</li>
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<li class="body">An <span class="code">@author</span> tag exists for class and interface Javadoc comments. Note: this can be turned off.</li>
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<li class="body">Format of variable names match specified regular expressions. For example, can enforce that all <span class="code">static</span> variables must start with <span class="code">"s"</span>.</li>
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<li class="body">Format of class and interface names match a specified regular expression.</li>
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<li class="body">Format of parameter names match a specified regular expression.</li>
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<li class="body">Variables that are not declared as <span class="code">private</span> or <span class="code">protected</span>.</li>
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<li class="body">Correct use of white space around binary and unary operators. For example, <span class="code">x -=- 1;</span> is illegal, whereas <span class="code">x -= -1;</span> is not.</li>
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<li class="body">Ensure <span class="code">{}</span>'s are used for <span class="code">if/while/for/do</span> constructs.</li>
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<li class="body">Lines do not contain tabs. Note: this check can be turned off.</li>
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<li class="body">Lines are not longer than a specified length.</li>
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<li class="body">Methods/Constructors are not longer than a specified number of lines.</li>
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<li class="body">Files are not longer than a specified number of lines.</li>
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</ul>
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<a name="download"></a>
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<h2>Download</h2>
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<p class="body">
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The latest release of Checkstyle can be downloaded from <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=29721">the SourceForge download page</a>.
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</p>
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<p class="body">
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If you want to live on the bleeding edge, you can <a href="http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=29721">checkout the current development status from CVS</a> and compile yourself.
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</p>
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<a name="related"></a>
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<h2>Related Tools</h2>
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<p class="body">
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Checkstyle is most useful if you integrate it in your build process or your development environment.
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li class="body">The Checkstyle distribution includes an <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html">Ant</a> task.</li>
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</ul>
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<p class="body">
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Additionally
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li class="body">Angus Chan has written <a href="http://jbcheckstyle.sourceforge.net">jbCheckStyle</a>, an Open Tool for JBuilder.</li>
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<li class="body">Markus Mohnen has written a nice interface to Checkstyle for the <a href="http://jde.sunsite.dk">Emacs JDE</a>. It is available from <a href="http://jde.sunsite.dk/contributions.html">http://jde.sunsite.dk/contributions.html</a>. Highly recommended if you are using the JDE.</li>
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</ul>
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</p>
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<p class="body">
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If you have written a plugin for other IDEs, like <a href="http://www.netbeans.org">Netbeans</a> or <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/">Eclipse</a>, please <a href="mailto:checkstyle@puppycrawl.com">let us know</a>, so we can provide a link here.
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</p>
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</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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<hr>
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<p align="center">Copyright © 2001 Oliver Burn. All rights Reserved.</p>
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</body> </html>
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