Checkstyle VS spotless

Compare Checkstyle vs spotless and see what are their differences.

Checkstyle

Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. By default it supports the Google Java Style Guide and Sun Code Conventions, but is highly configurable. It can be invoked with an ANT task and a command line program. (by checkstyle)
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Checkstyle spotless
15 10
8,092 4,118
0.9% 3.4%
9.9 9.7
6 days ago 3 days ago
Java Java
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only Apache License 2.0
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Checkstyle

Posts with mentions or reviews of Checkstyle. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-25.

spotless

Posts with mentions or reviews of spotless. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-06.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Checkstyle and spotless you can also consider the following projects:

SonarQube - Continuous Inspection

google-java-format - Reformats Java source code to comply with Google Java Style.

Spotbugs - SpotBugs is FindBugs' successor. A tool for static analysis to look for bugs in Java code.

prettier-java - Prettier Java Plugin

Error Prone - Catch common Java mistakes as compile-time errors

palantir-java-format - A modern, lambda-friendly, 120 character Java formatter.

PMD - An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.

prettier - Prettier is an opinionated code formatter.

git-code-format-maven-plugin - A maven plugin that automatically deploys code formatters as pre-commit git hook

fmt-maven-plugin - Opinionated Maven Plugin that formats your Java code.

spring-javaformat

infer - A static analyzer for Java, C, C++, and Objective-C