Is there an updated version of the Java Code Conventions

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The official Java Code Conventions document -that I could get hold of- is dated 1997 and it seems that Oracle has no updated version of it.

Oracle actually states on the conventions page that:

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Is there an official or at least a de facto official conventions that are more recent?

Note: I'm not asking here about a good or the best convention, I'm asking about the updated standard or the de facto standard if any. So, an answer should not be an opinion-based one.

The most widely used de facto convention is called "Eclipse default formatting settings" :) — biziclop, Jul 23 '15 at 12:47
google's seems as good as anything: http://google.github.io/styleguide/javaguide.html — Nathan Hughes, Jul 23 '15 at 12:54
@biziclop the eclipse formatting settings does not include many important aspects of the Java convention; like classes and methods naming, braces placement, blank lines... — Ahmad Y. Saleh, Jul 23 '15 at 14:58
@AhmadY.Saleh It does include braces placement, but mainly it was just a joke. — biziclop, Jul 23 '15 at 15:02

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 23 '15 at 12:50

Is there an official or at least a de facto official conventions that are more recent?

No there isn't a more recent official Sun / Oracle version of the Guidelines. (Or if there is, it is internal to Sun / Oracle.)

There are other more recent Java style guides around (Google is your friend!) but nothing that I would call a "defacto standard".

Is there an updated version of the Java Code Conventions

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