Code standard (not style) enforcer for Eclipse

Question

Is there some coding standard enforcer for use with Eclipse (a plugin or something)? I know I can use "Window > Preferences > [Language] > Code Style" to suggest conventions, but these are not enforced.

In other words, I want Coding standard violations to be marked as "Errors" and Coding style violations as "Warnings".

Thanks and regards, Karthick S.

Answer 1

You got several options to do that :

• PMD http://pmd.sourceforge.net/eclipse/
• Eclipse Checkstyle http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/
• Findbugs http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
• You can also integrate these plugins with your CI Server, for example Sonar For Hudson. Note that since 2011, Hudson has changed it's name to Jenkins. http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Sonar+plugin

Answer 2

Eclipse checkstyle plugin should do this :)