SonarJava VS Checkstyle

Compare SonarJava vs Checkstyle 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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SonarJava Checkstyle
- 15
1,088 8,121
1.1% 0.7%
9.5 9.9
7 days ago 7 days ago
Java Java
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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SonarJava

Posts with mentions or reviews of SonarJava. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning SonarJava yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

spotless - Keep your code spotless

PMD - An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.

SonarQube - Continuous Inspection

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

FindBugs - The new home of the FindBugs project

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