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SEI CERT Oracle Coding Standard for Java
3 Recommendations
Rec. 01. Declarations and Initialization (DCL)
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Rec. 01. Declarations and Initialization (DCL)
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Sandy Shrum
Mar 05, 2015
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David Svoboda
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DCL50-J. Use visually distinct identifiers
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DCL51-J. Do not shadow or obscure identifiers in subscopes
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DCL52-J. Do not declare more than one variable per declaration
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DCL53-J. Minimize the scope of variables
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DCL54-J. Use meaningful symbolic constants to represent literal values in program logic
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DCL55-J. Properly encode relationships in constant definitions
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DCL56-J. Do not attach significance to the ordinal associated with an enum
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DCL57-J. Avoid ambiguous overloading of variable arity methods
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DCL58-J. Enable compile-time type checking of variable arity parameter types
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DCL59-J. Do not apply public final to constants whose value might change in later releases
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DCL60-J. Avoid cyclic dependencies between packages
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DCL61-J. Do not use raw types
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