I don't think that looking at code will help you to develop a sense of best practices.
There are books written on the subject that will help much more than attempting to
glean such information from code. Especially since code is the end-product of the
practices, not the other way around.
From a style point of view - tomcat is not very strict on style. Thats not
saying that the style is bad, but we concentrate on code quality, not
programming style. But if a patch has bad programming style, hindering the
code readability and intent, then someone will complain.
So in a nutshell,
of the many nuances. That said, tomcat code is excellent
IMHO.
Yoav Shapira
Millennium ChemInformatics
-Original Message-
From: Tim Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 9:55 AM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: [OT] Quality of open source code - not a survey
