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Checkstyle is a tool for
checking Java source code for adherence to a Code Standard or set of validation rules (best practices).

The latest release version can be found at [SourceForge downloads](http://sourceforge.net/projects/checkstyle/files/checkstyle/) or at [Maven repo](http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/).

Each-commit builds of maven artifacts can be found at [Maven Snapshot repository](https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/).

Documentation is available in HTML format, see http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/checks.html.

Continuous integration and Quality reports
======================
Travis (Linux & MacOS build): [![][travis img]][travis]
Appveyor (Windows build): [![][appveyor img]][appveyor]

Quality reports: http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/project-reports.html

JavaScript, CSS and Java source file analysis on Codacy: [![][codacy img]][codacy]

Feedback/Support
========

Please send any feedback to https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/checkstyle

Questions and Answers from community: [![][stackoverflow img]][stackoverflow]

Bugs and Feature requests: https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues

Licensing
=========

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This software is licensed under the terms in the file named "LICENSE" in this
directory.

The software uses the ANTLR package (http://www.antlr.org). Its license terms
are in the file named "RIGHTS.antlr" in this directory.

This product includes software developed by
The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).

The software uses the Cli, Logging and Beanutils packages from the
Apache Commons project (http://commons.apache.org/). The license terms
of these packages are in the file named "LICENSE.apache20" in this
directory.

The software uses the Google Guava Libraries
(https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/). The license terms of
these packages are in the file named "LICENSE.apache20" in this
directory.

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[appveyor]:https://ci.appveyor.com/project/checkstyle/checkstyle/history
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[coverage]:http://codecov.io/github/checkstyle/checkstyle?branch=master
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[license]:LICENSE
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[stackoverflow]:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/checkstyle
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