diff --git a/build-tools/pom.xml b/build-tools/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..72a07a30f19def1e4d8d09be604799a3acf71e18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build-tools/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<project>
+ <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+ <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
+ <artifactId>build-tools</artifactId>
+ <version>0.1.4</version>
+ <name>Build Tools</name>
+</project>
diff --git a/build-tools/src/main/resources/checkstyle.xml b/build-tools/src/main/resources/checkstyle.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5b25fe2cb5aca5cf53407c195307c82f6af0e911
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build-tools/src/main/resources/checkstyle.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,170 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
+ "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.2//EN"
+ "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_2.dtd">
+
+<!--
+
+ Checkstyle configuration for Hadoop that is based on the sun_checks.xml file
+ that is bundled with Checkstyle and includes checks for:
+
+ - 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">
+
+ <!-- Checks that a package.html file exists for each package. -->
+ <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html#PackageHtml -->
+ <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"/>
+
+ <module name="FileLength"/>
+ <module name="FileTabCharacter"/>
+
+ <module name="TreeWalker">
+
+ <!-- Checks for Javadoc comments. -->
+ <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html -->
+ <module name="JavadocType">
+ <property name="scope" value="public"/>
+ <property name="allowMissingParamTags" value="true"/>
+ </module>
+ <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="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="MethodParamPad"/>
+ <module name="NoWhitespaceAfter"/>
+ <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"/>
+ <module name="ParenPad"/>
+ <module name="TypecastParenPad"/>
+ <module name="WhitespaceAfter">
+ <property name="tokens" value="COMMA, SEMI"/>
+ </module>
+
+
+ <!-- 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">
+ <property name="ignoreConstructorParameter" value="true"/>
+ </module>
+ <module name="IllegalInstantiation"/>
+ <module name="InnerAssignment"/>
+ <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="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="Indentation">
+ <property name="basicOffset" value="2" />
+ <property name="caseIndent" value="0" />
+ </module>
+ <module name="TodoComment"/>
+ <module name="UpperEll"/>
+
+ </module>
+
+</module>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a4063742fd48d97026d12710e63f31a02ba145f9..e61fbd2bb0651c3ba49b060edb418155165248c7 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@
</description>
<dependencies>
<!-- voldemort -->
+ <dependency>
+ <groupId>checkstyle</groupId>
+ <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
+ <version>5.0</version>
+ </dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jdom</groupId>
<artifactId>jdom</artifactId>
@@ -51,6 +56,7 @@
</properties>
<modules>
+ <module>build-tools</module>
<module>core</module>
<module>hbase</module>
<module>cassandra</module>
@@ -67,16 +73,40 @@
<build>
<plugins>
- <plugin>
- <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
- <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
- <version>2.3.2</version>
- <configuration>
- <source>1.6</source>
- <target>1.6</target>
- </configuration>
- </plugin>
- </plugins>
+ <plugin>
+ <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+ <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+ <version>2.3.2</version>
+ <configuration>
+ <source>1.6</source>
+ <target>1.6</target>
+ </configuration>
+ </plugin>
+ <plugin>
+ <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+ <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+ <version>2.6</version>
+ <configuration>
+ <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
+ <configLocation>checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
+ </configuration>
+ <dependencies>
+ <dependency>
+ <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
+ <artifactId>build-tools</artifactId>
+ <version>0.1.4</version>
+ </dependency>
+ </dependencies>
+ <executions>
+ <execution>
+ <id>validate</id>
+ <phase>validate</phase>
+ <goals>
+ <goal>checkstyle</goal>
+ </goals>
+ </execution>
+ </executions>
+ </plugin>
+ </plugins>
</build>
-
</project>