Beehive is currently considering a set of coding conventions.

The current proposal is based on the 'Java Conventions' from Sun with the following modifications:

• \[2.2\] use README.txt instead of README

• \[3.1.1\] use the ASF source header with a current copyright date

• \[4\] explicitly define indentation as 4 spaces

• \[4.1\] use of 120 character lines

• \[6.3\] allow declaration of variables before use

• \[7.4\] use a newline before else

• \[7.9\] use a newline before catch

• \[9\] allow the use of "_" as a prefix for class-level variable names

• \[10.5.1\] Make an exception for && and | -- no parentheses required around their component expressions

• \[10.5.2\] Drop this requirement

• \[10.5.4\]use "todo" instead of "fixme"

• discontinue use of the "I" naming convention for interfaces