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The difference between QAPlug-CheckStyle and CheckStyle-IDEA

Found a similar question about the difference between QAPlug-FindBugs and FindBugs-IDEA, but not about CheckStyle...

I think (from previous experience) with these plug-ins that one difference is that the QAPlug's CheckStyle version seems to be behind the CheckStyle-IDEA's CheckStyle version (I'm not referring to the versions of the plug-ins, but of the version of CheckStyle that's embedded in them).

Anyone knows of any other differences between those?

Solution

  • Advantages of CheckStyle-IDEA over QAPlug – Checkstyle:

    • Newer version of Checkstyle used
    • Community on GitHub
    • Fast scan before commit
    • Support for multiple configurations
    • Support for third-party checks

    I haven't noticed any use case when QAPlug is better.