existence of a “java standard”?

Question

I\'ve been programming in Java for about 4 years now, but what I\'ve learned was self-taught--I\'ve never taken a formal class for the language. Recently at my job I heard t

Answer 1

I would say so - to a greater or lesser extent.

I'd say almost everyone follows most of Sun/Oracle's Code Conventions for the Java Programming Language document - but many places tweak it. For example, I've very rarely seen much Java code which doesn't follow its naming conventions for methods, but often organisations will have their own whitespace conventions.