Shared coding conventions make it possible for a team to collaborate efficiently.

This rule makes it mandatory to place closing curly braces on the same line as the next else, catch or finally keywords.

The following code snippet illustrates this rule:

public void myMethod() {
  if(something) {
    executeTask();
  } else if (somethingElse) {          // Compliant
    doSomethingElse();
  }
  else {                               // Noncompliant
     generateError();
  }

  try {
    generateOrder();
  } catch (Exception e) {              // Compliant
    log(e);
  }
  finally {                            // Noncompliant
    closeConnection();
  }
}