Re: @the project developer: minor improvements,tidy sourcecode

On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 16:03, Shawn Wilson wrote:
>  > Yeah, we need to clean things up. I'm hoping to do some of that over the
>  > Christmas break here soon. There's actually a lot of miscellaneous
>  > housecleaning that needs to be done...
> 
> We have Checkstyle (http://checkstyle.sf.net) set up here but so far we 
> haven't been actively checking the source with it. It integrates nicely 
> with Ant and is very configurable; the only complaint I have is that if 
> the author didn't anticipate your particular coding style quirk then you 
> may have problems.
> 
> Has anyone used Checkstyle before but found something better?

Well, i've used and continue to use that, other utility you can think
about is  pmd (pmd.sf.net) which does work really good.


> So if we ever decide to use these utilities with Barracuda it should be 
> fairly simple to setup since we already have them incorporated into our 
> build.xml file.

If you take the decision i strongly suggest to take a while to think
about switch from ant to maven (which in fact includes ant).

I've done that for some projects i'm working on and i can tell you it is
worth spend time on it, first of all cause it gives you very powerful
integration between these kind of tools (like checkstyle pmd and so on)

If you like i'm willing to give any help i can.

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Thelmo