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18<document>
19   <properties>
20      <title>Conventions</title>
21   </properties>
22
23   <body>
24      <section name="Code Style">
25            <p>
26            The developers of this component decided to follow the recommended standards
27            but not to include Checkstyle (or similar tools) into Commons Compress.
28            </p>
29      </section>
30      <section name="Multithreading">
31            <p>
32            Commons Compress does not aim to be threadsafe at the moment. But the developers
33            agreed to document multithreading behaviour in the javadocs.
34            </p>
35            <p>
36            We use some of the annotations from
37            <a href="http://jcip.net/annotations/doc/net/jcip/annotations/package-summary.html">JCIP</a>
38            as Javadoc tags. The used tags are:
39
40            <ul>
41                <li>@GuardedBy (field or method)</li>
42                <li>@Immutable (class)</li>
43                <li>@NotThreadSafe (class)</li>
44                <li>@ThreadSafe (class)</li>
45            </ul>
46
47            For example:
48            <source>
49/**
50 * Utility class that represents a four byte integer with conversion
51 * rules for the big endian byte order of ZIP files.
52 *
53 * @Immutable
54 */
55public final class ZipLong implements Cloneable {
56            </source>
57
58            and:
59
60            <source>
61private final char [] highChars;
62//@GuardedBy("this")
63private Simple8BitZipEncoding encoding;
64            </source>
65            </p>
66      </section>
67
68   </body>
69</document>
70