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20071012 Friday October 12, 2007

Checkstyle

If you look in contrib/tasklist, you will find the sources of a module called Checkstyle, which integrates Checkstyle into the IDE. As stated on the Checkstyle site, it is "a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. It automates the process of checking Java code to spare humans of this boring (but important) task." It is also interesting as an example of the new NetBeans IDE Task List API. Soon, I will be investigating how to use that API, with the Checkstyle plugin as my entry point.

Here's me checking the style of the module that integrates Checkstyle into the IDE:

Oct 12 2007, 10:44:33 AM PDT Permalink