checkstyle

Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. By default it supports the Google Java Style Guide and Sun Code Conventions, but is highly configurable. It can be invoked with an ANT task and a command line program.

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Checkstyle is a tool for checking Java source code for adherence to a Code Standard
or set of validation rules (best practices).

The latest release version can be found at
GitHub releases
or at Maven repo.

Each-commit builds of maven artifacts can be found at
Maven Snapshot repository .

Documentation is available in HTML format, see https://checkstyle.org/checks.html.

Build instructions and Contribution

Build instructions

Setup IDE for development

Explanation on how to create your own module

Verification of code quality

Sending Pull Request

Report Issue

Continuous integration and Quality reports

Travis (Linux & MacOS build):
AppVeyor (Windows build):

Quality reports: https://checkstyle.org/project-reports.html

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Feedback/Support

Please send any feedback to https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/checkstyle

Questions and Answers from community:

Bugs and Feature requests (not the questions): https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues

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Licensing

This software is licensed under the terms in the file named "LICENSE" in this
directory.

The software uses the ANTLR package (https://www.antlr.org/). Its license terms
are in the file named "RIGHTS.antlr" in this directory.

This product includes software developed by
The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).

The software uses the Logging and Beanutils packages from the
Apache Commons project (http://commons.apache.org/). The license terms
of these packages are in the file named "LICENSE.apache20" in this
directory.

The software uses the Google Guava Libraries
(https://github.com/google/guava/). The license terms of
these packages are in the file named "LICENSE.apache20" in this
directory.

The software uses the Picocli Library
(https://github.com/remkop/picocli/). Its license terms
are in the file named "LICENSE.apache20" in this directory.

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Name With Ownercheckstyle/checkstyle
Primary LanguageJava
Program languageShell (Language Count: 11)
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License:GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
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Created At2013-08-31 02:05:05
Pushed At2025-06-10 14:21:43
Last Commit At2025-06-10 13:41:48
Release Count193
Last Release Namecheckstyle-10.25.0 (Posted on 2025-05-31 14:21:11)
First Release Namerelease1_1 (Posted on )
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