Checkstyle

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Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. By default it supports the Google Java Style Guide and Sun Code Conventions, but is highly configurable. It can be invoked with an ANT task and a command line program.

JavaJava and Kotlin linting and formattingLGPL-2.1

Owner: Checkstyle organisation
Stars: 9.6k
Forks: 4.3k
Latest: checkstyle-14.3.0
Last push: 2026-10-06
Terms: Open source
Created: 2013, 13 years ago
Release cadence: about 7 days between releases
Active contributors: 63+ commit authors on the default branch in the last 90 days

Read from GitHub on 2026-10-06.Entry last edited on 2026-10-06.

#code-quality#command-line-tool#java#static-analysis#static-code-analysis

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