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checkstyle

Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. By default it supports the Google Java Style Guide and Sun Code Conventions, but is highly configurable. It can be invoked with an ANT task and a command line program.

How to download and setup checkstyle

Open terminal and run command
git clone https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle.git
git clone is used to create a copy or clone of checkstyle repositories. You pass git clone a repository URL.
it supports a few different network protocols and corresponding URL formats.

Also you may download zip file with checkstyle https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/archive/master.zip

Or simply clone checkstyle with SSH
[email protected]:checkstyle/checkstyle.git

If you have some problems with checkstyle

You may open issue on checkstyle support forum (system) here: https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues