The Eclipse cs Project team has released version 4.1.0 of the Eclipse Checkstyle plug-in. The plug-in integrated the source code analyzer Checkstyle with the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

Checkstyle aims to help developers ensure that their Java code adheres to a set of coding standards. Checkstyle does this by inspecting the Java source code and pointing out items that deviate from a defined set of coding rules. The full Checkstyle distribution is included with the Checkstyle plug-in. In addition to using the Eclipse Checkstyle plug-in, developers can also use Checkstyle from the command line or as part of an Ant build.

With the Checkstyle Eclipse plug-in, code is constantly inspected for problems. Within the Eclipse workbench you are notified of problems via the Eclipse Problems View and source code annotations along with compiler errors or warnings.