Donal, Our coding convention says 180. It was discussed about a week or two back.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Coding+conventions --Alex > -----Original Message----- > From: Donal Lafferty [mailto:donal.laffe...@citrix.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 6:02 AM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: [discuss] 80 char max length leads to illegiable source > > This issue appeared when I used StyleCheck and Eclipse to find and fix my > coding convention violations automatically. Details at > http://dlafferty.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/apache-cloudstack-java-coding.html > > We inherit the 80 char line limit inherited from the Java Programming Style, > and it makes my tests unreadable. JSON serialised objects in long strings are > confusing. Readability problems also arise in non-test Java source. > Can we loosen/ignore this rule when readability becomes an issue? > > > DL
