About

• Checkstyle
• Release Notes
• Consulting
• Sponsoring

Documentation

• Configuration
  • Property Types
  • System Properties
• Running
  • Ant Task
  • Command Line
• Checks
  • Annotations
  • Block Checks
  • Class Design
  • Coding
  • Headers
  • Imports
  • Javadoc Comments
  • Metrics
  • Miscellaneous
  • Modifiers
  • Naming Conventions
  • Regexp
  • Size Violations
  • Whitespace
• Filters
• File Filters
• Style Configurations
  • Google's Style
  • Sun's Style

Developers

• Extending Checkstyle
  • Writing Checks
  • Writing Javadoc Checks
  • Writing Filters
  • Writing File Filters
  • Writing Listeners
• Contributing
• Beginning Development
  • Eclipse IDE
  • NetBeans IDE
  • IntelliJ IDE
• Javadoc

Project Documentation

• Project Information
• Project Reports

Running

This section documents the out-of-box supported methods for running Checkstyle.

• An Ant task.
• A Command Line tool.

Note that there are loads of plug-ins for all the IDEs out there.