ModifierOrder.md

Pattern: Wrong modifier order

Issue: -

Description

Checks that the order of modifiers conforms to the suggestions in the Java Language specification, sections 8.1.1, 8.3.1, 8.4.3 and 9.4. The correct order is:

1. public
2. protected
3. private
4. abstract
5. default
6. static
7. final
8. transient
9. volatile
10. synchronized
11. native
12. strictfp

ATTENTION: We skip type annotations from validation.

Examples

To configure the check:

<module name="ModifierOrder"/>

Further Reading

• checkstyle - ModifierOrder