Code Standard (not style) for Eclipse

Question

Is there any coding standard for use with Eclipse (plugin or something else)? I know that I can use "Window> Preferences> [Language]> Code Style" to suggest conventions, but they don't apply.

In other words, I want standard coding violations to be flagged as Errors and coding style violations as Warnings.

Thanks and greetings, Karthick S.

Answer 1

You have several options:

• PMD http://pmd.sourceforge.net/eclipse/
• Eclipse Checkstyle http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/
• Findbugs http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
• You can also integrate these plugins with your CI server, such as Sonar for Hudson. Please note that since 2011, Hudson changed this name to Jenkins. http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Sonar+plugin

Answer 2

Eclipse checkstyle plugin should do it :)

Answer 3

take a look at http://pmd.sourceforge.net/