Ant xml example for JAVA code check style.

JAVA_checkstyle.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<project name="XXX Application Build with check style" default="run" basedir="../">
	<description>   
        Ant build sample for running 
        - checkstyle, 
    </description>
    
     <!-- Change the paths to your individual installation directories -->
    <property name="checkstyle.home.dir" location="${basedir}/tools/checkstyle/"/>
    <property name="lib.dir" location="${basedir}/map/lib" />
    <property name="src.dir" location="${basedir}/map/app/" />
    <property name="bin.dir" location="${basedir}/bin" />
    <property name="htm.dir" location="${basedir}/html" />
    <property name="report.dir" location="${basedir}/report" />
    <property name="report.checkstyle.dir" location="${report.dir}/checkstyle" />
	
	 <!-- Task of clean -->
    <target name="clean" description="Delete all result to start with a clean build.">
        <delete dir="${report.checkstyles.dir}" />
        <delete dir="${report.temp.dir}" />
        <delete dir="${bin.dir}" />
    </target>
    
	<!-- Task of check style -->
    <target name="report.checkstyle" 
        description="Generate a report of code convention violations.">
        <taskdef resource="checkstyletask.properties"
                 classpath="${checkstyle.home.dir}/checkstyle-5.6-all.jar"
        />

        <!-- run verification of installation-->
        <available file="${checkstyle.home.dir}/checkstyle-5.6-all.jar"
                   property="checkstyle.available"
        />
        <fail unless="checkstyle.available"
              message="Error: CHECKSTYLE_HOME not set or checkstyle-5.6-all.jar not found."
        />
        <mkdir dir="${report.checkstyle.dir}" />

        <!-- run analysis-->
        <checkstyle config="${checkstyle.home.dir}/sun_checks.xml"
                    failureProperty="checkstyle.failure"
                    failOnViolation="false"
        >
            <formatter type="xml" tofile="${report.checkstyle.dir}/checkstyle_report.xml" />
            <fileset dir="${src.dir}" includes="**/*.java" />
        </checkstyle>

        <xslt in="${report.checkstyle.dir}/checkstyle_report.xml"
               out="${report.checkstyle.dir}/checkstyle_report.html"
               style="${checkstyle.home.dir}/contrib/checkstyle-noframes.xsl"
        />
    </target>

	 <!-- -->
    <target name="run"
            description="Run the build"
            depends="clean,report.checkstyle"
    >
    </target>
</project>