What is the name of this convention for curly braces?

Question

I\'m a bit puzzled by the number of developers I see writing methods and classes with curly braces below the class name or the method. What convention are they following?

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Answer 1

I prefer the second convention because the closing bracket will be directly below the opening one, so it's easier to find.

Answer 2

The first convention saves precious space. The bracket matching is done by the editor anyway.

Answer 3

The second convention is also the default indentation style of Visual Studio (and therefore rather common) for C#

Answer 4

This is a standard style convention called the ANSI style. It's common in other languages besides Java, as well.

Answer 5

The latter looks like the Allman indent style which is quite popular in C++ but I haven't seen it used often in Java.

Answer 6

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style

Syrion has identified it as the ANSI style, Sun follows the K&R style of brace placement.

Tangent: and now I know that accursed style is called Whitesmiths style