> Historically Checkstyle focuses more on coding standards and checks > for things like Javadoc quality, brace placement, use of whitespace, > number of parameters in methods, etc. It does find unused imports and > other QA checks. > > PMD has more of a bent on analysing the meaning of the source code, > to find unused imports, variables, methods + plus other tests. Hence > it is slower than Checkstyle. > > There is a degree of overlap between them both. It depends on what > you are wanting to achieve (and how quickly) as to which one to use. >
Yup! Right on. If you grep either the Checkstyle or the PMD code, you'll find several places where we've borrowed ideas from each other. I know I;ve put some comments in the PMD code like "Props to the Checkstyle guys for this Ant formatter gizmo which I've copied from their code". :-) Yours, tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
