Java Coding Standards

The Java community and SUN have already made the effort of designing one main set of coding standards. Although following these SUN Code Conventions is not mandatory, it is widely adopted and recommended.
Therefore, when you are developing Java components for THE CODING MACHINE, we ask you to respect the SUN Code Conventions.
You can read SUN Code Conventions here.

SUN Code Conventions are quite complete. The drawbacks of this completness is that they are rather hard to follow.
Fortunately, there are automated ways of checking that your code is respecting the conventions. THE CODING MACHINE recommends that you use Checkstyle and especially the Checkstyle Eclipse plugin to ensure that your code is in conformity with SUN Coding Standards.

In order to ensure that the code is easily readable, there is one additional rule that must be respected by any developer:
Comments, variable, function, class and method names must be written in English.

THE CODING MACHINE brings together developers from all over the world. It is very important that we share a common language and that everybody can understand the meaning of a variable, a comment... therefore, every words used anywhere in the code should be English words.