Java By Comparison

Agree On the Java Format in Your Team

When you’re building software professionally, you’re doing it in a team. Admittedly, some programmers work as independent freelancers, but the vast majority work in teams. That’s good, because programming in teams is more fun and you have a chance to learn from your colleagues.

Of course, there are also many challenges: you need to coordinate, plan, and communicate with each other, and agile processes such as Scrum or XP tell you how to do this. This book isn’t about teamwork—it’s about code quality, and we won’t go any further in this direction.^[54] We’re bringing this up because there’s a team challenge that has an impact on your code: formatting.

Code formatting is a topic that easily leads to heated ...