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<document>
   <properties>
      <title>Conventions</title>
   </properties>

   <body>
      <section name="Code Style">
            <p>
            The developers of this component decided to follow the recommended standards
            but not to include Checkstyle (or similar tools) into Commons Compress.
            </p>
      </section>
      <section name="Multithreading">
            <p>
            Commons Compress does not aim to be threadsafe at the moment. But the developers
            agreed to document multithreading behavior in the javadocs.
            </p>
            <p>
            We use some of the annotations from 
            <a href="http://jcip.net/annotations/doc/net/jcip/annotations/package-summary.html">JCIP</a>
            as Javadoc tags. The used tags are: 
    
            <ul>
                <li>@GuardedBy (field or method)</li>
                <li>@Immutable (class)</li>
                <li>@NotThreadSafe (class)</li>
                <li>@ThreadSafe (class)</li>
            </ul>

            For example:
            <source>
/**
 * Utility class that represents a four byte integer with conversion
 * rules for the big endian byte order of ZIP files.
 *
 * @Immutable
 */
public final class ZipLong implements Cloneable {
            </source> 
            
            and:
            
            <source> 
private final char [] highChars;
//@GuardedBy("this")
private Simple8BitZipEncoding encoding;
            </source>
            </p>
      </section>

   </body>
</document>
