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Why don't Checkstyle and PMD get together for good?  They know about each other, and do pretty much the same thing in the same way -- but apparently Checkstyle is faster.

Checkstyle 3.0, that is.  Good luck converting those Checkstyle 2.4 rules properties to the new XML format!  I did ours at work, which had several customizations over the defaults.  It took me a while to go through each one because the format of the properties file and many of the property names changed!  So, that was fun.  Probably should have waited until someone wrote a tool to do it for me. :->