A developer is not allowed to check in any code that does not fulfill all the below given criterias:

Unit Tests

• All new features added to the system must have a unit test suite.
• The developer has to ensure that the code written has tests for everything that could possibly break (well, as long as it is practical).

JavaDoc

• JavaDoc has to be written for all methods, fields and classes.
• The JavaDoc has to be thought through and should describe the purpose and responsibility of the method, field or class.
• All method parameters should be described
• All classes must have a copyright notice at the top and author tags on the format @author <a href='mail to:dduck@codehaus.org'>Donald Duck</a>

Documentation

• All new features must be well documented in the Maven XDoc format and put in the CVS.

Code convention

• indentation must be four spaces (no tabs)
• never use this (this.<field>) when referencing member fields, instead use prefixes (s_ and m_)
• Member variables should always be prefixed with m_
• Static variables should always be prefixed with s_
• Constants should always be in uppercase and use underscores: THIS_IS_A_CONSTANT
• no lines should be longer than 120 characters
• wildcards are NOT allowed in package imports and the imports should be logically grouped
• invocations to static methods should always be prefixed with their class, e.g. MyClass.myStaticMethod

• grouping of fields and methods in a class should be in the following order (top down):
• constants
• static fields
• member fields
• public static methods
• public member methods
• protected static methods
• protected member methods
• etc.
• inner classes

• try write self-documenting code by giving the classes, methods and fields descriptive names (even if it makes them long), when this is not sufficient use comments

• use curly braces for single statements (except for assertions):

  // correct if (true) { return true; } // wrong if (true) return true;

• opening curly braces should not be on a newline:

  if (...) { ... }

• opening curly braces are always followed by a newline, e.g. f.e. don't write:

  public String getName() { return name; }

• else, catch and finally statements should not start on a new line:

  try (...) { ... } catch { ... } finally { ... }

• spaces should be used as in the code sample given:

  for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) { if (i == 5) { i += 5; } }