Code Conventions

[David Holmes]

Hi Florian,

On 21/03/2019 8:32 pm, Florian Weimer wrote:
> This page
> 
>    <http://openjdk.java.net/guide/codeConventions.html>
> 
> contains only a dead link to:
> 
>    <http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/index.html>
> 
> Is this page archived somewhere?
> 
> Right now, I'm particularly interested in formatting guidelines for
> exception messages.  Should they begin with a capitable letter?  Are
> there rules for producing certain clipped sentences?  (Such a rule
> appears to exist for the first sentence in a method documentation.)

I don't recall ever seeing the format of exception messages covered in 
any coding guidelines. Probably best to ask on 
core-libs-dev at openjdk.java.net.

Cheers,
David