Java Standards for Corporate Development

Programming standards are required to ensure coding consistency and to keep development costs under control. This book represents a survey of the best practices currently employed by corporate IT shops. Its primary purpose is to promote proper planning, consistent programming styles and programming techniques so that all programmers can read each other's code, maintenance costs are reduced, and reuse is improved. Its secondary purpose is to promote good design and coding practices that are safe, efficient, and work consistently in the Java environment. this book covers most of the issues, procedures, and documentation that a corporation requires for enforcing consistent Java coding styles and programming practices. Subjects include the development cycles, code reviews, and design strategies. It presents real world examples standards, guidelines and checklists for all important development stages, and features a matrix of the levels of standardisation, to identify the level of oversight warranted for different project scales and types.