HTTP 404 on Oracle Java code conventions

[Phil Race]

The dead links need to be removed for sure and replaced with something else.
However my understanding is that the positioning of the doc on the oracle
website made it appear to be recommendations for the way all Java code
should be written. Given that it doesn't cover newer features, and clearly
Oracle isn't going to (or going to want to) enforce style guidelines for
non-Oracle code it was deliberately removed.

However for projects in which Oracle *is* involved (ie openjdk) there
seems to be a case for reviving this document in some limited form.
ie limited in the material it covers to generally accepted and customary
openjdk coding guidelines, and limited to claiming to be an openjdk 
document,
but not a document for the entire world.

-phil.

On 5/16/14 7:21 PM, Donald Smith wrote:
> There's a bug at [1] for that, suggest commenting there (I'll kick it 
> again now).
> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8039151
>
> I'm not sure what it should say instead, but the linked pages seem to 
> have been removed.  Oddly, I do remember this guide from 1999 (15 
> years ago!!) -- and I believe it stopped being updated because that 
> was right around the time that IDEs started just automatically doing 
> this for you, so the conversations moved there.
>
>  - Don
>
> On 16/05/2014 8:26 PM, Radov, Nicholas O wrote:
>> I'm posting this on the discuss list in the hope that someone at 
>> Oracle will see it and take action. All of the links on the "Code 
>> Conventions for the Java Programming Language" web page are broken.
>>
>> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index-135089.html
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