Hi Ian,

Thanks for providing this. This is very much appreciated.

It is probably about time to start thinking and fighting about such a
thing as a coding convention ...

Ian Boston schrieb:
> For what it is worth, and I wont say I agree with all of it, but thats ok.
> 
> The shindig eclipse files are here
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/shindig/trunk/etc/eclipse/
> but you probably wont want the import order as it reverses to allow
> overrides.
> 
> and there is a checkstyle config
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/shindig/trunk/etc/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml
> 
> which is almost right.
> 
> There is a description of the thought process
> http://cwiki.apache.org/SHINDIGxSITE/java-style.html (mentions 4 and 2
> space indents)
> 
> 
> YM -will- V
> Ian
> 
> I hope I haven't opened up pandora's box :)

It may well be, but in the end, sooner or later this box would have been
opened upon us anyway ;-) So no worry.

To track this I created SLING-937 [1]. Feel free to add to this...

Regards
Felix

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-937

> 
> On 22 Apr 2009, at 17:48, Felix Meschberger wrote:
> 
>> Hi Ian,
>>
>> Ian Boston schrieb:
>>> Is there a code style guide for sling, or better still an eclipse config
>>> and import order.
>>> It looks like standard java style but I am not sure about the space
>>> policy.
>>
>> Interesting topic which is as important as it is controverse.
>>
>> As Bertrand, I am basically using the default Eclipse Setup. What I
>> think is very important is the no-tab policy (I think we are pretty much
>> in agreement nowadays, that tabs are bad ;-) )
>>
>> Another thing is the formatting of comments and the line length. The
>> default in Eclipse is something like 80. In Apache Felix we have
>> something like 120.
>>
>> Sometimes I have the impression, that 120 would be better than 80 for
>> editing etc. But then I am hooked on my own personal vt100 legacy
>> thinking ;-)
>>
>> Regards
>> Felix
> 
> 

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