Checkstyle.org Website Review

Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Ja*a code that adheres to a coding standard. It automates the process of checking Ja*a code to spare humans of this boring (but important) task. This makes it ideal for projects that want to enforce a coding Checkstyle is highly configurable and can be made to support almost any coding standard. An example configuration files are supplied Checkstyle can check many aspects of your source code. It can find clas* design problems, method design problems. It also has the ability Current site contains docu*entation only for latest, released version. We only support this latest version. We highly recommend read latest docu*entation first. However, you might need docu*entation for previous releases because you are still using an older version and latest version describe some features that does not work for you. Since Checkstyle 7, some users have been unable to continue upgrading to newer versions of the utility because of the new JDK 1.8 compile requirement. The development team doesn't have the resources to keep updating the utility for older JDKs for those that can't work with the However, some members of the community have created an unofficial backport of the latest Checkstyle releases to be run with JDKs as old as 1.6. If you wish to continue using new Checkstyle versions on older JDKs, we recommend you either checkout the github site RELEASES WILL HAPPEN AT THE END OF EACH MONTH if functional changes exist in the master branch of our repo Checkstyle is most useful if you integrate it into your build process or your development environment. The distribution includes: Additionally plug-ins are written by third-parties. Some of them are still based on the Checkstyle 2.4 release, although there have been Alternative to the Eclipse-CS plugin. Allows to use custom checks directly without providing an Eclipse Fragment plugin for that Checkstyle supported out of the box Gradle Checkstyle docs