01. Declarations and Initialization (DCL)

Rules

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  DCL00-J. Prevent class initialization cycles
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  DCL01-J. Do not reuse public identifiers from the Java Standard Library
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  DCL02-J. Do not modify the collection's elements during an enhanced for statement
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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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  Rec. 01. Declarations and Initialization (DCL)
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  Rule 01. Declarations and Initialization (DCL)

Risk Assessment Summary

IDS13-J. Use compatible encodings on both sides of file or network IO      The CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard for Java