Here's some food for thought on creating coding standards...
1. You can't please everyone all of the time or in all aspects and this
becomes "Hero" driven or a "holy war"
2. Creating a custom standard is very time/resource consuming and (see #1)
3. Adopting an objectively maintained industry
+1 to having a recommended reading list. At first glance, the SEI standard
seems like an extremely useful resource, but I am hesitant to adopt it as
our "coding standard" without carefully reading all the way through it. I
would, however, be comfortable adding it to a recommended reading list.
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Problem:
Every time we make a put the code in BucketRegion.searchAndLock and
BucketRegion.removeAndNotifyKeys locks (synchronized) on a hash map, the
allKeysMap, to checkout the key to be modified and prevent anyone else from
updating at the same time. This area of the code gets a lot of
