From 506f34910b633be5e40ea8e7e7eeb15bb9245317 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rishabh Sethi <rishu_sethi1@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:03:25 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Maven Checkstyle Plugin Added

---
 README.md               |  4 ++++
 bob-rest/pom.xml        | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 bob-service-api/pom.xml | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
 3 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 23b009f..ca25aab 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -45,3 +45,7 @@ Visit the project website for more information: <http://mcupak.github.io/beacon-
 
 ##Technologies
 Java EE. CDI, EJB, JAX-RS, JAXB, Bean Validation. Tested with Arquillian/ShrinkWrap.
+
+##Maven Checkstyle
+...To see errors in the style of your code:
+    mvn checkstyle:checkstyle
diff --git a/bob-rest/pom.xml b/bob-rest/pom.xml
index ffb35da..6fcc6c2 100644
--- a/bob-rest/pom.xml
+++ b/bob-rest/pom.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-    
+
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.dnastack</groupId>
         <artifactId>bob</artifactId>
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <packaging>war</packaging>
     <description>Beacon of Beacons REST module</description>
-    
+
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.dnastack</groupId>
@@ -84,7 +84,24 @@
             <type>pom</type>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
-    
+
+    <reporting>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.15</version>
+                <reportSets>
+                    <reportSet>
+                        <reports>
+                            <report>checkstyle</report>
+                        </reports>
+                    </reportSet>
+                </reportSets>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </reporting>
+
     <build>
         <finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
         <plugins>
@@ -106,9 +123,14 @@
                     <target>${maven.compiler.target}</target>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.15</version>
+           </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>
-    
+
     <profiles>
         <profile>
             <!--do not execute tests by default, tests require internet connection-->
diff --git a/bob-service-api/pom.xml b/bob-service-api/pom.xml
index 8849137..c462258 100644
--- a/bob-service-api/pom.xml
+++ b/bob-service-api/pom.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     <artifactId>bob-service-api</artifactId>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
     <description>Beacon of Beacons service API module</description>
-    
+
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.jboss.resteasy</groupId>
@@ -21,7 +21,22 @@
             <artifactId>org.eclipse.persistence.moxy</artifactId>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
-    
+    <reporting>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.15</version>
+                <reportSets>
+                    <reportSet>
+                        <reports>
+                            <report>checkstyle</report>
+                        </reports>
+                    </reportSet>
+                </reportSets>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </reporting>
     <build>
         <plugins>
             <plugin>
@@ -33,6 +48,11 @@
                     <target>${maven.compiler.target}</target>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.15</version>
+           </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>
-</project>
\ No newline at end of file
+</project>

From 8a54f71e89c2914abb81ea30bca4d80e3141021e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rishabh Sethi <rishu_sethi1@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 23:26:28 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] fixes #69

---
 beacon-adapters/beacon-java/checkstyle.xml | 176 +++++++++++++++++++++
 bob-data/checkstyle.xml                    | 176 +++++++++++++++++++++
 bob-data/pom.xml                           |  24 ++-
 bob-rest/checkstyle.xml                    | 176 +++++++++++++++++++++
 bob-rest/pom.xml                           |   5 +
 bob-service-api/checkstyle.xml             | 176 +++++++++++++++++++++
 bob-service-api/pom.xml                    |   3 +
 bob-service/checkstyle.xml                 | 176 +++++++++++++++++++++
 bob-service/pom.xml                        |  23 +++
 checkstyle.xml                             | 176 +++++++++++++++++++++
 pom.xml                                    |  42 +++--
 11 files changed, 1143 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 beacon-adapters/beacon-java/checkstyle.xml
 create mode 100644 bob-data/checkstyle.xml
 create mode 100644 bob-rest/checkstyle.xml
 create mode 100644 bob-service-api/checkstyle.xml
 create mode 100644 bob-service/checkstyle.xml
 create mode 100644 checkstyle.xml

diff --git a/beacon-adapters/beacon-java/checkstyle.xml b/beacon-adapters/beacon-java/checkstyle.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4acc66d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/beacon-adapters/beacon-java/checkstyle.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
+          "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.3//EN"
+          "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">
+
+<!--
+  Checkstyle configuration that checks the sun coding conventions from:
+    - the Java Language Specification at
+      http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/index.html
+    - the Sun Code Conventions at http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/
+    - the Javadoc guidelines at
+      http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/index.html
+    - the JDK Api documentation http://java.sun.com/j2se/docs/api/index.html
+    - some best practices
+  Checkstyle is very configurable. Be sure to read the documentation at
+  http://checkstyle.sf.net (or in your downloaded distribution).
+  Most Checks are configurable, be sure to consult the documentation.
+  To completely disable a check, just comment it out or delete it from the file.
+  Finally, it is worth reading the documentation.
+-->
+
+<module name="Checker">
+    <!--
+        If you set the basedir property below, then all reported file
+        names will be relative to the specified directory. See
+        http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/5.x/config.html#Checker
+        <property name="basedir" value="${basedir}"/>
+    -->
+
+    <!-- Checks that a package-info.java file exists for each package.     -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html#JavadocPackage -->
+    <module name="JavadocPackage"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks whether files end with a new line.                        -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#NewlineAtEndOfFile -->
+    <module name="NewlineAtEndOfFile"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks that property files contain the same keys.         -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#Translation -->
+    <module name="Translation"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks for Size Violations.                    -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html -->
+    <module name="FileLength"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks for whitespace                               -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
+    <module name="FileTabCharacter"/>
+
+    <!-- Miscellaneous other checks.                   -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html -->
+    <module name="RegexpSingleline">
+       <property name="format" value="\s+$"/>
+       <property name="minimum" value="0"/>
+       <property name="maximum" value="0"/>
+       <property name="message" value="Line has trailing spaces."/>
+    </module>
+
+    <module name="TreeWalker">
+
+        <!-- Checks for Javadoc comments.                     -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html -->
+        <module name="JavadocMethod"/>
+        <module name="JavadocType"/>
+        <module name="JavadocVariable"/>
+        <module name="JavadocStyle"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Naming Conventions.                  -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_naming.html -->
+        <module name="ConstantName"/>
+        <module name="LocalFinalVariableName"/>
+        <module name="LocalVariableName"/>
+        <module name="MemberName"/>
+        <module name="MethodName"/>
+        <module name="PackageName"/>
+        <module name="ParameterName"/>
+        <module name="StaticVariableName"/>
+        <module name="TypeName"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Headers                                -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_header.html   -->
+        <!-- <module name="Header">                            -->
+            <!-- The follow property value demonstrates the ability     -->
+            <!-- to have access to ANT properties. In this case it uses -->
+            <!-- the ${basedir} property to allow Checkstyle to be run  -->
+            <!-- from any directory within a project. See property      -->
+            <!-- expansion,                                             -->
+            <!-- http://checkstyle.sf.net/config.html#properties        -->
+            <!-- <property                                              -->
+            <!--     name="headerFile"                                  -->
+            <!--     value="${basedir}/java.header"/>                   -->
+        <!-- </module> -->
+
+        <!-- Following interprets the header file as regular expressions. -->
+        <!-- <module name="RegexpHeader"/>                                -->
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for imports                              -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_import.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidStarImport"/>
+        <module name="IllegalImport"/> <!-- defaults to sun.* packages -->
+        <module name="RedundantImport"/>
+        <module name="UnusedImports"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Size Violations.                    -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html -->
+        <!--<module name="LineLength"/>-->
+        <!--<module name="MethodLength"/>-->
+        <module name="ParameterNumber"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for whitespace                               -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
+        <module name="EmptyForIteratorPad"/>
+        <module name="GenericWhitespace"/>
+        <module name="MethodParamPad"/>
+        <module name="NoWhitespaceAfter"/>
+        <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"/>
+        <module name="OperatorWrap"/>
+        <module name="ParenPad"/>
+        <module name="TypecastParenPad"/>
+        <module name="WhitespaceAfter"/>
+        <module name="WhitespaceAround"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Modifier Checks                                    -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_modifiers.html -->
+        <module name="ModifierOrder"/>
+        <module name="RedundantModifier"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for blocks. You know, those {}'s         -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_blocks.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidNestedBlocks"/>
+        <module name="EmptyBlock"/>
+        <module name="LeftCurly"/>
+        <module name="NeedBraces"/>
+        <module name="RightCurly"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for common coding problems               -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_coding.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidInlineConditionals"/>
+        <!--<module name="DoubleCheckedLocking"/>-->
+        <module name="EmptyStatement"/>
+        <module name="EqualsHashCode"/>
+        <module name="HiddenField"/>
+        <module name="IllegalInstantiation"/>
+        <module name="InnerAssignment"/>
+        <!--<module name="MagicNumber"/>-->
+        <module name="MissingSwitchDefault"/>
+        <module name="RedundantThrows"/>
+        <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression"/>
+        <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn"/>
+
+        <!-- Checks for class design                         -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_design.html -->
+        <module name="DesignForExtension"/>
+        <module name="FinalClass"/>
+        <module name="HideUtilityClassConstructor"/>
+        <module name="InterfaceIsType"/>
+        <module name="VisibilityModifier"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Miscellaneous other checks.                   -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html -->
+        <module name="ArrayTypeStyle"/>
+        <module name="FinalParameters"/>
+        <module name="TodoComment"/>
+        <module name="UpperEll"/>
+
+    </module>
+</module>
diff --git a/bob-data/checkstyle.xml b/bob-data/checkstyle.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4acc66d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bob-data/checkstyle.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
+          "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.3//EN"
+          "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">
+
+<!--
+  Checkstyle configuration that checks the sun coding conventions from:
+    - the Java Language Specification at
+      http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/index.html
+    - the Sun Code Conventions at http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/
+    - the Javadoc guidelines at
+      http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/index.html
+    - the JDK Api documentation http://java.sun.com/j2se/docs/api/index.html
+    - some best practices
+  Checkstyle is very configurable. Be sure to read the documentation at
+  http://checkstyle.sf.net (or in your downloaded distribution).
+  Most Checks are configurable, be sure to consult the documentation.
+  To completely disable a check, just comment it out or delete it from the file.
+  Finally, it is worth reading the documentation.
+-->
+
+<module name="Checker">
+    <!--
+        If you set the basedir property below, then all reported file
+        names will be relative to the specified directory. See
+        http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/5.x/config.html#Checker
+        <property name="basedir" value="${basedir}"/>
+    -->
+
+    <!-- Checks that a package-info.java file exists for each package.     -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html#JavadocPackage -->
+    <module name="JavadocPackage"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks whether files end with a new line.                        -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#NewlineAtEndOfFile -->
+    <module name="NewlineAtEndOfFile"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks that property files contain the same keys.         -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#Translation -->
+    <module name="Translation"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks for Size Violations.                    -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html -->
+    <module name="FileLength"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks for whitespace                               -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
+    <module name="FileTabCharacter"/>
+
+    <!-- Miscellaneous other checks.                   -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html -->
+    <module name="RegexpSingleline">
+       <property name="format" value="\s+$"/>
+       <property name="minimum" value="0"/>
+       <property name="maximum" value="0"/>
+       <property name="message" value="Line has trailing spaces."/>
+    </module>
+
+    <module name="TreeWalker">
+
+        <!-- Checks for Javadoc comments.                     -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html -->
+        <module name="JavadocMethod"/>
+        <module name="JavadocType"/>
+        <module name="JavadocVariable"/>
+        <module name="JavadocStyle"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Naming Conventions.                  -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_naming.html -->
+        <module name="ConstantName"/>
+        <module name="LocalFinalVariableName"/>
+        <module name="LocalVariableName"/>
+        <module name="MemberName"/>
+        <module name="MethodName"/>
+        <module name="PackageName"/>
+        <module name="ParameterName"/>
+        <module name="StaticVariableName"/>
+        <module name="TypeName"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Headers                                -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_header.html   -->
+        <!-- <module name="Header">                            -->
+            <!-- The follow property value demonstrates the ability     -->
+            <!-- to have access to ANT properties. In this case it uses -->
+            <!-- the ${basedir} property to allow Checkstyle to be run  -->
+            <!-- from any directory within a project. See property      -->
+            <!-- expansion,                                             -->
+            <!-- http://checkstyle.sf.net/config.html#properties        -->
+            <!-- <property                                              -->
+            <!--     name="headerFile"                                  -->
+            <!--     value="${basedir}/java.header"/>                   -->
+        <!-- </module> -->
+
+        <!-- Following interprets the header file as regular expressions. -->
+        <!-- <module name="RegexpHeader"/>                                -->
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for imports                              -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_import.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidStarImport"/>
+        <module name="IllegalImport"/> <!-- defaults to sun.* packages -->
+        <module name="RedundantImport"/>
+        <module name="UnusedImports"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Size Violations.                    -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html -->
+        <!--<module name="LineLength"/>-->
+        <!--<module name="MethodLength"/>-->
+        <module name="ParameterNumber"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for whitespace                               -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
+        <module name="EmptyForIteratorPad"/>
+        <module name="GenericWhitespace"/>
+        <module name="MethodParamPad"/>
+        <module name="NoWhitespaceAfter"/>
+        <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"/>
+        <module name="OperatorWrap"/>
+        <module name="ParenPad"/>
+        <module name="TypecastParenPad"/>
+        <module name="WhitespaceAfter"/>
+        <module name="WhitespaceAround"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Modifier Checks                                    -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_modifiers.html -->
+        <module name="ModifierOrder"/>
+        <module name="RedundantModifier"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for blocks. You know, those {}'s         -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_blocks.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidNestedBlocks"/>
+        <module name="EmptyBlock"/>
+        <module name="LeftCurly"/>
+        <module name="NeedBraces"/>
+        <module name="RightCurly"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for common coding problems               -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_coding.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidInlineConditionals"/>
+        <!--<module name="DoubleCheckedLocking"/>-->
+        <module name="EmptyStatement"/>
+        <module name="EqualsHashCode"/>
+        <module name="HiddenField"/>
+        <module name="IllegalInstantiation"/>
+        <module name="InnerAssignment"/>
+        <!--<module name="MagicNumber"/>-->
+        <module name="MissingSwitchDefault"/>
+        <module name="RedundantThrows"/>
+        <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression"/>
+        <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn"/>
+
+        <!-- Checks for class design                         -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_design.html -->
+        <module name="DesignForExtension"/>
+        <module name="FinalClass"/>
+        <module name="HideUtilityClassConstructor"/>
+        <module name="InterfaceIsType"/>
+        <module name="VisibilityModifier"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Miscellaneous other checks.                   -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html -->
+        <module name="ArrayTypeStyle"/>
+        <module name="FinalParameters"/>
+        <module name="TodoComment"/>
+        <module name="UpperEll"/>
+
+    </module>
+</module>
diff --git a/bob-data/pom.xml b/bob-data/pom.xml
index b4b98d1..6ae65fb 100644
--- a/bob-data/pom.xml
+++ b/bob-data/pom.xml
@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@
     <name>bob-data</name>
     <description>Beacon of Beacons data module</description>
 
-
     <properties>
         <endorsed.dir>${project.build.directory}/endorsed</endorsed.dir>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+        <checkstyle.config.location>checkstyle.xml</checkstyle.config.location>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
@@ -79,6 +79,23 @@
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
+    <reporting>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.15</version>
+                <reportSets>
+                    <reportSet>
+                        <reports>
+                            <report>checkstyle</report>
+                        </reports>
+                    </reportSet>
+                </reportSets>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </reporting>
+
     <build>
         <plugins>
             <plugin>
@@ -98,6 +115,11 @@
                     <ejbVersion>3.1</ejbVersion>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.15</version>
+           </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>
 
diff --git a/bob-rest/checkstyle.xml b/bob-rest/checkstyle.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4acc66d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bob-rest/checkstyle.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
+          "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.3//EN"
+          "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">
+
+<!--
+  Checkstyle configuration that checks the sun coding conventions from:
+    - the Java Language Specification at
+      http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/index.html
+    - the Sun Code Conventions at http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/
+    - the Javadoc guidelines at
+      http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/index.html
+    - the JDK Api documentation http://java.sun.com/j2se/docs/api/index.html
+    - some best practices
+  Checkstyle is very configurable. Be sure to read the documentation at
+  http://checkstyle.sf.net (or in your downloaded distribution).
+  Most Checks are configurable, be sure to consult the documentation.
+  To completely disable a check, just comment it out or delete it from the file.
+  Finally, it is worth reading the documentation.
+-->
+
+<module name="Checker">
+    <!--
+        If you set the basedir property below, then all reported file
+        names will be relative to the specified directory. See
+        http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/5.x/config.html#Checker
+        <property name="basedir" value="${basedir}"/>
+    -->
+
+    <!-- Checks that a package-info.java file exists for each package.     -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html#JavadocPackage -->
+    <module name="JavadocPackage"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks whether files end with a new line.                        -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#NewlineAtEndOfFile -->
+    <module name="NewlineAtEndOfFile"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks that property files contain the same keys.         -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#Translation -->
+    <module name="Translation"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks for Size Violations.                    -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html -->
+    <module name="FileLength"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks for whitespace                               -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
+    <module name="FileTabCharacter"/>
+
+    <!-- Miscellaneous other checks.                   -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html -->
+    <module name="RegexpSingleline">
+       <property name="format" value="\s+$"/>
+       <property name="minimum" value="0"/>
+       <property name="maximum" value="0"/>
+       <property name="message" value="Line has trailing spaces."/>
+    </module>
+
+    <module name="TreeWalker">
+
+        <!-- Checks for Javadoc comments.                     -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html -->
+        <module name="JavadocMethod"/>
+        <module name="JavadocType"/>
+        <module name="JavadocVariable"/>
+        <module name="JavadocStyle"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Naming Conventions.                  -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_naming.html -->
+        <module name="ConstantName"/>
+        <module name="LocalFinalVariableName"/>
+        <module name="LocalVariableName"/>
+        <module name="MemberName"/>
+        <module name="MethodName"/>
+        <module name="PackageName"/>
+        <module name="ParameterName"/>
+        <module name="StaticVariableName"/>
+        <module name="TypeName"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Headers                                -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_header.html   -->
+        <!-- <module name="Header">                            -->
+            <!-- The follow property value demonstrates the ability     -->
+            <!-- to have access to ANT properties. In this case it uses -->
+            <!-- the ${basedir} property to allow Checkstyle to be run  -->
+            <!-- from any directory within a project. See property      -->
+            <!-- expansion,                                             -->
+            <!-- http://checkstyle.sf.net/config.html#properties        -->
+            <!-- <property                                              -->
+            <!--     name="headerFile"                                  -->
+            <!--     value="${basedir}/java.header"/>                   -->
+        <!-- </module> -->
+
+        <!-- Following interprets the header file as regular expressions. -->
+        <!-- <module name="RegexpHeader"/>                                -->
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for imports                              -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_import.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidStarImport"/>
+        <module name="IllegalImport"/> <!-- defaults to sun.* packages -->
+        <module name="RedundantImport"/>
+        <module name="UnusedImports"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Size Violations.                    -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html -->
+        <!--<module name="LineLength"/>-->
+        <!--<module name="MethodLength"/>-->
+        <module name="ParameterNumber"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for whitespace                               -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
+        <module name="EmptyForIteratorPad"/>
+        <module name="GenericWhitespace"/>
+        <module name="MethodParamPad"/>
+        <module name="NoWhitespaceAfter"/>
+        <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"/>
+        <module name="OperatorWrap"/>
+        <module name="ParenPad"/>
+        <module name="TypecastParenPad"/>
+        <module name="WhitespaceAfter"/>
+        <module name="WhitespaceAround"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Modifier Checks                                    -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_modifiers.html -->
+        <module name="ModifierOrder"/>
+        <module name="RedundantModifier"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for blocks. You know, those {}'s         -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_blocks.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidNestedBlocks"/>
+        <module name="EmptyBlock"/>
+        <module name="LeftCurly"/>
+        <module name="NeedBraces"/>
+        <module name="RightCurly"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for common coding problems               -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_coding.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidInlineConditionals"/>
+        <!--<module name="DoubleCheckedLocking"/>-->
+        <module name="EmptyStatement"/>
+        <module name="EqualsHashCode"/>
+        <module name="HiddenField"/>
+        <module name="IllegalInstantiation"/>
+        <module name="InnerAssignment"/>
+        <!--<module name="MagicNumber"/>-->
+        <module name="MissingSwitchDefault"/>
+        <module name="RedundantThrows"/>
+        <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression"/>
+        <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn"/>
+
+        <!-- Checks for class design                         -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_design.html -->
+        <module name="DesignForExtension"/>
+        <module name="FinalClass"/>
+        <module name="HideUtilityClassConstructor"/>
+        <module name="InterfaceIsType"/>
+        <module name="VisibilityModifier"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Miscellaneous other checks.                   -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html -->
+        <module name="ArrayTypeStyle"/>
+        <module name="FinalParameters"/>
+        <module name="TodoComment"/>
+        <module name="UpperEll"/>
+
+    </module>
+</module>
diff --git a/bob-rest/pom.xml b/bob-rest/pom.xml
index 6fcc6c2..6a5e83f 100644
--- a/bob-rest/pom.xml
+++ b/bob-rest/pom.xml
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
@@ -7,6 +8,10 @@
         <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     </parent>
 
+    <properties>
+      <checkstyle.config.location>checkstyle.xml</checkstyle.config.location>
+    </properties>
+
     <artifactId>bob-rest</artifactId>
     <name>bob-rest</name>
     <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
diff --git a/bob-service-api/checkstyle.xml b/bob-service-api/checkstyle.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4acc66d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bob-service-api/checkstyle.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
+          "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.3//EN"
+          "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">
+
+<!--
+  Checkstyle configuration that checks the sun coding conventions from:
+    - the Java Language Specification at
+      http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/index.html
+    - the Sun Code Conventions at http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/
+    - the Javadoc guidelines at
+      http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/index.html
+    - the JDK Api documentation http://java.sun.com/j2se/docs/api/index.html
+    - some best practices
+  Checkstyle is very configurable. Be sure to read the documentation at
+  http://checkstyle.sf.net (or in your downloaded distribution).
+  Most Checks are configurable, be sure to consult the documentation.
+  To completely disable a check, just comment it out or delete it from the file.
+  Finally, it is worth reading the documentation.
+-->
+
+<module name="Checker">
+    <!--
+        If you set the basedir property below, then all reported file
+        names will be relative to the specified directory. See
+        http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/5.x/config.html#Checker
+        <property name="basedir" value="${basedir}"/>
+    -->
+
+    <!-- Checks that a package-info.java file exists for each package.     -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html#JavadocPackage -->
+    <module name="JavadocPackage"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks whether files end with a new line.                        -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#NewlineAtEndOfFile -->
+    <module name="NewlineAtEndOfFile"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks that property files contain the same keys.         -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#Translation -->
+    <module name="Translation"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks for Size Violations.                    -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html -->
+    <module name="FileLength"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks for whitespace                               -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
+    <module name="FileTabCharacter"/>
+
+    <!-- Miscellaneous other checks.                   -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html -->
+    <module name="RegexpSingleline">
+       <property name="format" value="\s+$"/>
+       <property name="minimum" value="0"/>
+       <property name="maximum" value="0"/>
+       <property name="message" value="Line has trailing spaces."/>
+    </module>
+
+    <module name="TreeWalker">
+
+        <!-- Checks for Javadoc comments.                     -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html -->
+        <module name="JavadocMethod"/>
+        <module name="JavadocType"/>
+        <module name="JavadocVariable"/>
+        <module name="JavadocStyle"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Naming Conventions.                  -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_naming.html -->
+        <module name="ConstantName"/>
+        <module name="LocalFinalVariableName"/>
+        <module name="LocalVariableName"/>
+        <module name="MemberName"/>
+        <module name="MethodName"/>
+        <module name="PackageName"/>
+        <module name="ParameterName"/>
+        <module name="StaticVariableName"/>
+        <module name="TypeName"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Headers                                -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_header.html   -->
+        <!-- <module name="Header">                            -->
+            <!-- The follow property value demonstrates the ability     -->
+            <!-- to have access to ANT properties. In this case it uses -->
+            <!-- the ${basedir} property to allow Checkstyle to be run  -->
+            <!-- from any directory within a project. See property      -->
+            <!-- expansion,                                             -->
+            <!-- http://checkstyle.sf.net/config.html#properties        -->
+            <!-- <property                                              -->
+            <!--     name="headerFile"                                  -->
+            <!--     value="${basedir}/java.header"/>                   -->
+        <!-- </module> -->
+
+        <!-- Following interprets the header file as regular expressions. -->
+        <!-- <module name="RegexpHeader"/>                                -->
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for imports                              -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_import.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidStarImport"/>
+        <module name="IllegalImport"/> <!-- defaults to sun.* packages -->
+        <module name="RedundantImport"/>
+        <module name="UnusedImports"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Size Violations.                    -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html -->
+        <!--<module name="LineLength"/>-->
+        <!--<module name="MethodLength"/>-->
+        <module name="ParameterNumber"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for whitespace                               -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
+        <module name="EmptyForIteratorPad"/>
+        <module name="GenericWhitespace"/>
+        <module name="MethodParamPad"/>
+        <module name="NoWhitespaceAfter"/>
+        <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"/>
+        <module name="OperatorWrap"/>
+        <module name="ParenPad"/>
+        <module name="TypecastParenPad"/>
+        <module name="WhitespaceAfter"/>
+        <module name="WhitespaceAround"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Modifier Checks                                    -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_modifiers.html -->
+        <module name="ModifierOrder"/>
+        <module name="RedundantModifier"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for blocks. You know, those {}'s         -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_blocks.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidNestedBlocks"/>
+        <module name="EmptyBlock"/>
+        <module name="LeftCurly"/>
+        <module name="NeedBraces"/>
+        <module name="RightCurly"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for common coding problems               -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_coding.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidInlineConditionals"/>
+        <!--<module name="DoubleCheckedLocking"/>-->
+        <module name="EmptyStatement"/>
+        <module name="EqualsHashCode"/>
+        <module name="HiddenField"/>
+        <module name="IllegalInstantiation"/>
+        <module name="InnerAssignment"/>
+        <!--<module name="MagicNumber"/>-->
+        <module name="MissingSwitchDefault"/>
+        <module name="RedundantThrows"/>
+        <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression"/>
+        <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn"/>
+
+        <!-- Checks for class design                         -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_design.html -->
+        <module name="DesignForExtension"/>
+        <module name="FinalClass"/>
+        <module name="HideUtilityClassConstructor"/>
+        <module name="InterfaceIsType"/>
+        <module name="VisibilityModifier"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Miscellaneous other checks.                   -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html -->
+        <module name="ArrayTypeStyle"/>
+        <module name="FinalParameters"/>
+        <module name="TodoComment"/>
+        <module name="UpperEll"/>
+
+    </module>
+</module>
diff --git a/bob-service-api/pom.xml b/bob-service-api/pom.xml
index c462258..58705c5 100644
--- a/bob-service-api/pom.xml
+++ b/bob-service-api/pom.xml
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@
             <artifactId>org.eclipse.persistence.moxy</artifactId>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
+    <properties>
+      <checkstyle.config.location>checkstyle.xml</checkstyle.config.location>
+    </properties>
     <reporting>
         <plugins>
             <plugin>
diff --git a/bob-service/checkstyle.xml b/bob-service/checkstyle.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4acc66d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bob-service/checkstyle.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
+          "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.3//EN"
+          "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">
+
+<!--
+  Checkstyle configuration that checks the sun coding conventions from:
+    - the Java Language Specification at
+      http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/index.html
+    - the Sun Code Conventions at http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/
+    - the Javadoc guidelines at
+      http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/index.html
+    - the JDK Api documentation http://java.sun.com/j2se/docs/api/index.html
+    - some best practices
+  Checkstyle is very configurable. Be sure to read the documentation at
+  http://checkstyle.sf.net (or in your downloaded distribution).
+  Most Checks are configurable, be sure to consult the documentation.
+  To completely disable a check, just comment it out or delete it from the file.
+  Finally, it is worth reading the documentation.
+-->
+
+<module name="Checker">
+    <!--
+        If you set the basedir property below, then all reported file
+        names will be relative to the specified directory. See
+        http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/5.x/config.html#Checker
+        <property name="basedir" value="${basedir}"/>
+    -->
+
+    <!-- Checks that a package-info.java file exists for each package.     -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html#JavadocPackage -->
+    <module name="JavadocPackage"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks whether files end with a new line.                        -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#NewlineAtEndOfFile -->
+    <module name="NewlineAtEndOfFile"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks that property files contain the same keys.         -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#Translation -->
+    <module name="Translation"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks for Size Violations.                    -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html -->
+    <module name="FileLength"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks for whitespace                               -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
+    <module name="FileTabCharacter"/>
+
+    <!-- Miscellaneous other checks.                   -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html -->
+    <module name="RegexpSingleline">
+       <property name="format" value="\s+$"/>
+       <property name="minimum" value="0"/>
+       <property name="maximum" value="0"/>
+       <property name="message" value="Line has trailing spaces."/>
+    </module>
+
+    <module name="TreeWalker">
+
+        <!-- Checks for Javadoc comments.                     -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html -->
+        <module name="JavadocMethod"/>
+        <module name="JavadocType"/>
+        <module name="JavadocVariable"/>
+        <module name="JavadocStyle"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Naming Conventions.                  -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_naming.html -->
+        <module name="ConstantName"/>
+        <module name="LocalFinalVariableName"/>
+        <module name="LocalVariableName"/>
+        <module name="MemberName"/>
+        <module name="MethodName"/>
+        <module name="PackageName"/>
+        <module name="ParameterName"/>
+        <module name="StaticVariableName"/>
+        <module name="TypeName"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Headers                                -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_header.html   -->
+        <!-- <module name="Header">                            -->
+            <!-- The follow property value demonstrates the ability     -->
+            <!-- to have access to ANT properties. In this case it uses -->
+            <!-- the ${basedir} property to allow Checkstyle to be run  -->
+            <!-- from any directory within a project. See property      -->
+            <!-- expansion,                                             -->
+            <!-- http://checkstyle.sf.net/config.html#properties        -->
+            <!-- <property                                              -->
+            <!--     name="headerFile"                                  -->
+            <!--     value="${basedir}/java.header"/>                   -->
+        <!-- </module> -->
+
+        <!-- Following interprets the header file as regular expressions. -->
+        <!-- <module name="RegexpHeader"/>                                -->
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for imports                              -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_import.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidStarImport"/>
+        <module name="IllegalImport"/> <!-- defaults to sun.* packages -->
+        <module name="RedundantImport"/>
+        <module name="UnusedImports"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Size Violations.                    -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html -->
+        <!--<module name="LineLength"/>-->
+        <!--<module name="MethodLength"/>-->
+        <module name="ParameterNumber"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for whitespace                               -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
+        <module name="EmptyForIteratorPad"/>
+        <module name="GenericWhitespace"/>
+        <module name="MethodParamPad"/>
+        <module name="NoWhitespaceAfter"/>
+        <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"/>
+        <module name="OperatorWrap"/>
+        <module name="ParenPad"/>
+        <module name="TypecastParenPad"/>
+        <module name="WhitespaceAfter"/>
+        <module name="WhitespaceAround"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Modifier Checks                                    -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_modifiers.html -->
+        <module name="ModifierOrder"/>
+        <module name="RedundantModifier"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for blocks. You know, those {}'s         -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_blocks.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidNestedBlocks"/>
+        <module name="EmptyBlock"/>
+        <module name="LeftCurly"/>
+        <module name="NeedBraces"/>
+        <module name="RightCurly"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for common coding problems               -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_coding.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidInlineConditionals"/>
+        <!--<module name="DoubleCheckedLocking"/>-->
+        <module name="EmptyStatement"/>
+        <module name="EqualsHashCode"/>
+        <module name="HiddenField"/>
+        <module name="IllegalInstantiation"/>
+        <module name="InnerAssignment"/>
+        <!--<module name="MagicNumber"/>-->
+        <module name="MissingSwitchDefault"/>
+        <module name="RedundantThrows"/>
+        <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression"/>
+        <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn"/>
+
+        <!-- Checks for class design                         -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_design.html -->
+        <module name="DesignForExtension"/>
+        <module name="FinalClass"/>
+        <module name="HideUtilityClassConstructor"/>
+        <module name="InterfaceIsType"/>
+        <module name="VisibilityModifier"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Miscellaneous other checks.                   -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html -->
+        <module name="ArrayTypeStyle"/>
+        <module name="FinalParameters"/>
+        <module name="TodoComment"/>
+        <module name="UpperEll"/>
+
+    </module>
+</module>
diff --git a/bob-service/pom.xml b/bob-service/pom.xml
index 6a2e3ce..4959c62 100644
--- a/bob-service/pom.xml
+++ b/bob-service/pom.xml
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
     <properties>
         <endorsed.dir>${project.build.directory}/endorsed</endorsed.dir>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+        <checkstyle.config.location>checkstyle.xml</checkstyle.config.location>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
@@ -84,6 +85,23 @@
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
+    <reporting>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.15</version>
+                <reportSets>
+                    <reportSet>
+                        <reports>
+                            <report>checkstyle</report>
+                        </reports>
+                    </reportSet>
+                </reportSets>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </reporting>
+
     <build>
         <plugins>
             <plugin>
@@ -101,6 +119,11 @@
                     <ejbVersion>3.1</ejbVersion>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.15</version>
+           </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>
 
diff --git a/checkstyle.xml b/checkstyle.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4acc66d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/checkstyle.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
+          "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.3//EN"
+          "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">
+
+<!--
+  Checkstyle configuration that checks the sun coding conventions from:
+    - the Java Language Specification at
+      http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/index.html
+    - the Sun Code Conventions at http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/
+    - the Javadoc guidelines at
+      http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/index.html
+    - the JDK Api documentation http://java.sun.com/j2se/docs/api/index.html
+    - some best practices
+  Checkstyle is very configurable. Be sure to read the documentation at
+  http://checkstyle.sf.net (or in your downloaded distribution).
+  Most Checks are configurable, be sure to consult the documentation.
+  To completely disable a check, just comment it out or delete it from the file.
+  Finally, it is worth reading the documentation.
+-->
+
+<module name="Checker">
+    <!--
+        If you set the basedir property below, then all reported file
+        names will be relative to the specified directory. See
+        http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/5.x/config.html#Checker
+        <property name="basedir" value="${basedir}"/>
+    -->
+
+    <!-- Checks that a package-info.java file exists for each package.     -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html#JavadocPackage -->
+    <module name="JavadocPackage"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks whether files end with a new line.                        -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#NewlineAtEndOfFile -->
+    <module name="NewlineAtEndOfFile"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks that property files contain the same keys.         -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#Translation -->
+    <module name="Translation"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks for Size Violations.                    -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html -->
+    <module name="FileLength"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks for whitespace                               -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
+    <module name="FileTabCharacter"/>
+
+    <!-- Miscellaneous other checks.                   -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html -->
+    <module name="RegexpSingleline">
+       <property name="format" value="\s+$"/>
+       <property name="minimum" value="0"/>
+       <property name="maximum" value="0"/>
+       <property name="message" value="Line has trailing spaces."/>
+    </module>
+
+    <module name="TreeWalker">
+
+        <!-- Checks for Javadoc comments.                     -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html -->
+        <module name="JavadocMethod"/>
+        <module name="JavadocType"/>
+        <module name="JavadocVariable"/>
+        <module name="JavadocStyle"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Naming Conventions.                  -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_naming.html -->
+        <module name="ConstantName"/>
+        <module name="LocalFinalVariableName"/>
+        <module name="LocalVariableName"/>
+        <module name="MemberName"/>
+        <module name="MethodName"/>
+        <module name="PackageName"/>
+        <module name="ParameterName"/>
+        <module name="StaticVariableName"/>
+        <module name="TypeName"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Headers                                -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_header.html   -->
+        <!-- <module name="Header">                            -->
+            <!-- The follow property value demonstrates the ability     -->
+            <!-- to have access to ANT properties. In this case it uses -->
+            <!-- the ${basedir} property to allow Checkstyle to be run  -->
+            <!-- from any directory within a project. See property      -->
+            <!-- expansion,                                             -->
+            <!-- http://checkstyle.sf.net/config.html#properties        -->
+            <!-- <property                                              -->
+            <!--     name="headerFile"                                  -->
+            <!--     value="${basedir}/java.header"/>                   -->
+        <!-- </module> -->
+
+        <!-- Following interprets the header file as regular expressions. -->
+        <!-- <module name="RegexpHeader"/>                                -->
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for imports                              -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_import.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidStarImport"/>
+        <module name="IllegalImport"/> <!-- defaults to sun.* packages -->
+        <module name="RedundantImport"/>
+        <module name="UnusedImports"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Size Violations.                    -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html -->
+        <!--<module name="LineLength"/>-->
+        <!--<module name="MethodLength"/>-->
+        <module name="ParameterNumber"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for whitespace                               -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
+        <module name="EmptyForIteratorPad"/>
+        <module name="GenericWhitespace"/>
+        <module name="MethodParamPad"/>
+        <module name="NoWhitespaceAfter"/>
+        <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"/>
+        <module name="OperatorWrap"/>
+        <module name="ParenPad"/>
+        <module name="TypecastParenPad"/>
+        <module name="WhitespaceAfter"/>
+        <module name="WhitespaceAround"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Modifier Checks                                    -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_modifiers.html -->
+        <module name="ModifierOrder"/>
+        <module name="RedundantModifier"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for blocks. You know, those {}'s         -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_blocks.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidNestedBlocks"/>
+        <module name="EmptyBlock"/>
+        <module name="LeftCurly"/>
+        <module name="NeedBraces"/>
+        <module name="RightCurly"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for common coding problems               -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_coding.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidInlineConditionals"/>
+        <!--<module name="DoubleCheckedLocking"/>-->
+        <module name="EmptyStatement"/>
+        <module name="EqualsHashCode"/>
+        <module name="HiddenField"/>
+        <module name="IllegalInstantiation"/>
+        <module name="InnerAssignment"/>
+        <!--<module name="MagicNumber"/>-->
+        <module name="MissingSwitchDefault"/>
+        <module name="RedundantThrows"/>
+        <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression"/>
+        <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn"/>
+
+        <!-- Checks for class design                         -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_design.html -->
+        <module name="DesignForExtension"/>
+        <module name="FinalClass"/>
+        <module name="HideUtilityClassConstructor"/>
+        <module name="InterfaceIsType"/>
+        <module name="VisibilityModifier"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Miscellaneous other checks.                   -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html -->
+        <module name="ArrayTypeStyle"/>
+        <module name="FinalParameters"/>
+        <module name="TodoComment"/>
+        <module name="UpperEll"/>
+
+    </module>
+</module>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 925b50f..bf18c88 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-    
+
+
     <groupId>com.dnastack</groupId>
     <artifactId>bob</artifactId>
     <name>bob</name>
     <description>Beacon of Beacons parent module</description>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
     <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-    
+
     <modules>
         <module>bob-data</module>
         <module>bob-service</module>
@@ -17,18 +18,18 @@
         <module>bob-js-client</module>
         <module>beacon-adapters</module>
     </modules>
-    
+
     <scm>
         <url>https://github.com/mcupak/beacon-of-beacons</url>
         <connection>scm:git:git://github.com/mcupak/beacon-of-beacons.git</connection>
         <developerConnection>scm:git:git@github.com:mcupak/beacon-of-beacons.git</developerConnection>
     </scm>
-    
+
     <organization>
         <name>DNAstack</name>
         <url>http://dnastack.com</url>
     </organization>
-    
+
     <developers>
         <developer>
             <id>mcupak</id>
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@
             </roles>
         </developer>
     </developers>
-    
+
     <licenses>
         <license>
             <name>MIT License</name>
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@
             <distribution>repo</distribution>
         </license>
     </licenses>
-    
+
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <version.jboss.spec.javaee.7.0>8.2.0.Final</version.jboss.spec.javaee.7.0>
@@ -74,6 +75,7 @@
         <version.wildfly.maven.plugin>1.0.2.Final</version.wildfly.maven.plugin>
         <maven.compiler.target>1.7</maven.compiler.target>
         <maven.compiler.source>1.7</maven.compiler.source>
+        <checkstyle.config.location>checkstyle.xml</checkstyle.config.location>
     </properties>
     <dependencyManagement>
         <dependencies>
@@ -130,7 +132,24 @@
             </dependency>
         </dependencies>
     </dependencyManagement>
-    
+
+    <reporting>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.15</version>
+                <reportSets>
+                    <reportSet>
+                        <reports>
+                            <report>checkstyle</report>
+                        </reports>
+                    </reportSet>
+                </reportSets>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </reporting>
+
     <build>
         <pluginManagement>
             <plugins>
@@ -194,7 +213,12 @@
                     <artifactId>wildfly-arquillian-container-remote</artifactId>
                     <version>${version.wildfly.arquillian.plugin}</version>
                 </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>2.15</version>
+               </plugin>
             </plugins>
         </pluginManagement>
     </build>
-</project>
\ No newline at end of file
+</project>