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• "Hard" maximum line length of 120 characters
  • Except for imports or other places where breaking the line wouldn't aid readability
    
    

Spacing

• Spacing between elements on a line e.g.
  • if (x | y) {
  • while (true) {
  • methodCall(arg1, arg2) {
  • String s = "con" + "cat";
• Braces are always used with if, else, for, do and while statements, even if the body is empty or only a single statement
  

JavaDoc

• Parameter descriptions are aligned and not on new lines.
• No invalid tags
• No tags without a description
• Blank line after main description but not after any tags
  

Other

• Import order
  • TBC
• Import spacing
  • TBC
• No wildcard (.*) imports
• Method line length (soft limit of 50)
• Class line length (soft limit of 500)
  

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• Use of Optional
  • Return types where null is possible (which aren't performance critical)
• Default/static methods on Interfaces
• Utilise lambdas where possible (max ~5 lines)
  • If the lambda is >4-5 lines >3 line then consider making this a separate method
    

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