Maven Checkstyle plugin contains config/sun_checks.xml predefined ruleset derived from the configuration included in Checkstyle sources:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.2//EN" "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_2.dtd"> <!-- Checkstyle configuration that checks the sun coding conventions from: - the Java Language Specification at http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/index.html - the Sun Code Conventions at http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/ - the Javadoc guidelines at http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/index.html - the JDK Api documentation http://java.sun.com/j2se/docs/api/index.html - some best practices Checkstyle is very configurable. Be sure to read the documentation at http://checkstyle.sf.net (or in your downloaded distribution). Most Checks are configurable, be sure to consult the documentation. To completely disable a check, just comment it out or delete it from the file. Finally, it is worth reading the documentation. --> <module name="Checker"> <!-- If you set the basedir property below, then all reported file names will be relative to the specified directory. See http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/5.x/config.html#Checker <property name="basedir" value="${basedir}"/> --> <!-- Checks that each Java package has a Javadoc file used for commenting. --> <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html#JavadocPackage --> <module name="JavadocPackage"> <property name="allowLegacy" value="true"/> </module> <!-- Checks whether files end with a new line. --> <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#NewlineAtEndOfFile --> <module name="NewlineAtEndOfFile"/> <!-- Checks that property files contain the same keys. --> <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#Translation --> <module name="Translation"/> <module name="FileLength"/> <!-- Following interprets the header file as regular expressions. --> <!-- <module name="RegexpHeader"/> --> <module name="FileTabCharacter"> <property name="eachLine" value="true"/> </module> <module name="RegexpSingleline"> <!-- \s matches whitespace character, $ matches end of line. --> <property name="format" value="\s+$"/> <property name="message" value="Line has trailing spaces."/> </module> <module name="TreeWalker"> <property name="cacheFile" value="${checkstyle.cache.file}"/> <!-- required for SuppressWarningsFilter (and other Suppress* rules not used here) --> <!-- see http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_annotation.html#SuppressWarningsHolder --> <module name="SuppressWarningsHolder"/> <!-- Checks for Javadoc comments. --> <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html --> <module name="JavadocMethod"/> <module name="JavadocType"/> <module name="JavadocVariable"/> <module name="JavadocStyle"/> <!-- Checks for Naming Conventions. --> <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_naming.html --> <module name="ConstantName"/> <module name="LocalFinalVariableName"/> <module name="LocalVariableName"/> <module name="MemberName"/> <module name="MethodName"/> <module name="PackageName"/> <module name="ParameterName"/> <module name="StaticVariableName"/> <module name="TypeName"/> <!-- Checks for Headers --> <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_header.html --> <!-- <module name="Header"> --> <!-- The follow property value demonstrates the ability --> <!-- to have access to ANT properties. In this case it uses --> <!-- the ${basedir} property to allow Checkstyle to be run --> <!-- from any directory within a project. See property --> <!-- expansion, --> <!-- http://checkstyle.sf.net/config.html#properties --> <!-- <property --> <!-- name="headerFile" --> <!-- value="${basedir}/java.header"/> --> <!-- </module> --> <!-- Checks for imports --> <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_import.html --> <module name="AvoidStarImport"/> <module name="IllegalImport"/> <!-- defaults to sun.* packages --> <module name="RedundantImport"/> <module name="UnusedImports"/> <!-- Checks for Size Violations. --> <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html --> <module name="LineLength"/> <module name="MethodLength"/> <module name="ParameterNumber"/> <!-- Checks for whitespace --> <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html --> <module name="EmptyForIteratorPad"/> <module name="MethodParamPad"/> <module name="NoWhitespaceAfter"/> <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"/> <module name="OperatorWrap"/> <module name="ParenPad"/> <module name="TypecastParenPad"/> <module name="WhitespaceAfter"/> <module name="WhitespaceAround"/> <!-- Modifier Checks --> <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_modifiers.html --> <module name="ModifierOrder"/> <module name="RedundantModifier"/> <!-- Checks for blocks. You know, those {}'s --> <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_blocks.html --> <module name="AvoidNestedBlocks"/> <module name="EmptyBlock"/> <module name="LeftCurly"/> <module name="NeedBraces"/> <module name="RightCurly"/> <!-- Checks for common coding problems --> <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_coding.html --> <module name="AvoidInlineConditionals"/> <module name="EmptyStatement"/> <module name="EqualsHashCode"/> <module name="HiddenField"/> <module name="IllegalInstantiation"/> <module name="InnerAssignment"/> <module name="MagicNumber"/> <module name="MissingSwitchDefault"/> <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression"/> <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn"/> <!-- Checks for class design --> <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_design.html --> <module name="DesignForExtension"/> <module name="FinalClass"/> <module name="HideUtilityClassConstructor"/> <module name="InterfaceIsType"/> <module name="VisibilityModifier"/> <!-- Miscellaneous other checks. --> <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html --> <module name="ArrayTypeStyle"/> <module name="FinalParameters"/> <module name="TodoComment"/> <module name="UpperEll"/> </module> <!-- Support @SuppressWarnings (added in Checkstyle 5.7) --> <!-- see http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config.html#SuppressWarningsFilter --> <module name="SuppressWarningsFilter"/> <!-- Checks properties file for a duplicated properties. --> <!-- See http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_misc.html#UniqueProperties --> <module name="UniqueProperties"/> </module>