Empty new line at the end of the Java source files

Question

In my current project, we always insert an empty new line at the end of the Java source files. We also enforce this with CheckStyle (with error level).

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Answer 1

Have a look at this SO question..

The answer shamelessly stolen from Ralph Rickenbach:

Many older tools misbehave if the last line of data in a text file is not terminated with a newline or carriage return / new line combination. They ignore that line as it is terminated with ^Z (eof) instead.

So I figure it's mostly a ghost of the past. Unfortunately, such ghosts can bite you in the tail if you don't properly exorcise them. (Is your build server old and uses older shell scripts for summaries and such things).