On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:54 PM, James Carman <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Attila Király <[email protected]> > wrote: > > (Also an answer to Hans Lesmeister) > > > > Afaik there is no checkstyle plugin that can do the same as eclipse > > formatter + save actions: format and clean up code upon save. Checkstyle > > will only test that the rules are met or not. It is not very convenient > > (also not possible to reformat whole projects with one click). > > > > Again, we don't all use Eclipse. The Checkstyle plugin is convenient > because it works in any environment (IDE or not). > Does that mean that when I save a file or format it explicitly in my IDE the checkstyle plugin will intercept the action and apply its settings ? Using checkstyle in Maven is stupid for this kind of projects - OSS development in my spare time. I will be very unhappy to code something in 30mins and then to spend another 30mins or more trying to apply *manually*the formatting style in my IDE just to satisfy the build tool. -- Martin Grigorov jWeekend Training, Consulting, Development http://jWeekend.com <http://jweekend.com/>
