Question

I’ve been programming in Java for about 4 years now, but what I’ve learned was self-taught–I’ve never taken a formal class for the language. Recently at my job I heard two guys arguing over something called the “java standard” of programming that “99% of all professional java developers use.” I’ve never heard of nor intentionally used this “standard” while writing code in java, so I guess I’ve gotten off easy with the bosses so far.

Is this so-called standard as popular as my coworker proposed in the java developing community?

Answer 1

I would say so – to a greater or lesser extent.

I’d say almost everyone follows most of Sun/Oracle’s Code Conventions for the Java Programming Language document – but many places tweak it. For example, I’ve very rarely seen much Java code which doesn’t follow its naming conventions for methods, but often organisations will have their own whitespace conventions.