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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.3//EN" "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">
+
+<!--
+    This configuration file was written by the eclipse-cs plugin configuration editor
+-->
+<!--
+    Checkstyle-Configuration: ROME
+    Description: 
+CheckStyle configuration for the ROME project
+-->
+<module name="Checker">
+  <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
+  <module name="TreeWalker">
+    <property name="tabWidth" value="4"/>
+    <module name="JavadocMethod">
+      <property name="allowMissingPropertyJavadoc" value="true"/>
+      <property name="suppressLoadErrors" value="true"/>
+    </module>
+    <module name="JavadocType"/>
+    <module name="JavadocVariable">
+      <property name="severity" value="ignore"/>
+      <metadata name="net.sf.eclipsecs.core.lastEnabledSeverity" value="inherit"/>
+    </module>
+    <module name="JavadocStyle"/>
+    <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"/>
+    <module name="AvoidStarImport"/>
+    <module name="IllegalImport"/>
+    <module name="RedundantImport"/>
+    <module name="UnusedImports"/>
+    <module name="LineLength">
+      <property name="max" value="160"/>
+      <property name="tabWidth" value="4"/>
+    </module>
+    <module name="MethodLength"/>
+    <module name="ParameterNumber"/>
+    <module name="EmptyForIteratorPad"/>
+    <module name="MethodParamPad"/>
+    <module name="NoWhitespaceAfter">
+      <property name="tokens" value="BNOT,DEC,DOT,INC,LNOT,UNARY_MINUS,UNARY_PLUS"/>
+    </module>
+    <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"/>
+    <module name="OperatorWrap"/>
+    <module name="ParenPad"/>
+    <module name="TypecastParenPad"/>
+    <module name="WhitespaceAfter"/>
+    <module name="WhitespaceAround"/>
+    <module name="ModifierOrder"/>
+    <module name="RedundantModifier"/>
+    <module name="AvoidNestedBlocks"/>
+    <module name="EmptyBlock"/>
+    <module name="LeftCurly"/>
+    <module name="NeedBraces"/>
+    <module name="RightCurly"/>
+    <module name="AvoidInlineConditionals"/>
+    <module name="EmptyStatement"/>
+    <module name="EqualsHashCode"/>
+    <module name="HiddenField">
+      <property name="severity" value="ignore"/>
+      <metadata name="net.sf.eclipsecs.core.lastEnabledSeverity" value="inherit"/>
+    </module>
+    <module name="IllegalInstantiation"/>
+    <module name="InnerAssignment"/>
+    <module name="MagicNumber"/>
+    <module name="MissingSwitchDefault"/>
+    <module name="RedundantThrows">
+      <property name="suppressLoadErrors" value="true"/>
+    </module>
+    <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression"/>
+    <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn"/>
+    <module name="DesignForExtension">
+      <property name="severity" value="ignore"/>
+      <metadata name="net.sf.eclipsecs.core.lastEnabledSeverity" value="inherit"/>
+    </module>
+    <module name="FinalClass"/>
+    <module name="HideUtilityClassConstructor"/>
+    <module name="InterfaceIsType"/>
+    <module name="VisibilityModifier"/>
+    <module name="ArrayTypeStyle"/>
+    <module name="FinalParameters"/>
+    <module name="TodoComment">
+      <property name="severity" value="ignore"/>
+      <metadata name="net.sf.eclipsecs.core.lastEnabledSeverity" value="inherit"/>
+    </module>
+    <module name="UpperEll"/>
+  </module>
+  <module name="JavadocPackage">
+    <property name="severity" value="ignore"/>
+    <metadata name="net.sf.eclipsecs.core.lastEnabledSeverity" value="inherit"/>
+  </module>
+  <module name="NewlineAtEndOfFile">
+    <property name="severity" value="ignore"/>
+    <metadata name="net.sf.eclipsecs.core.lastEnabledSeverity" value="inherit"/>
+  </module>
+  <module name="Translation"/>
+  <module name="FileLength"/>
+  <module name="FileTabCharacter">
+    <property name="severity" value="ignore"/>
+    <metadata name="net.sf.eclipsecs.core.lastEnabledSeverity" value="inherit"/>
+  </module>
+  <module name="RegexpSingleline">
+    <property name="severity" value="ignore"/>
+    <property name="format" value="\s+$"/>
+    <property name="message" value="Line has trailing spaces."/>
+    <metadata name="net.sf.eclipsecs.core.lastEnabledSeverity" value="inherit"/>
+  </module>
+</module>