Table of Contents

31.1. Publishing a new release

31.2. Subversion / building BASE

31.3. Coding rules and guidelines

31.3.1. Development process and other important procedures

31.3.2. General coding style guidelines

Naming

Layout and comments

Statements

31.3.3. API changes and backwards compatibility

31.3.4. Data-layer rules

31.3.5. Item-class rules

Basic class and interface hierarchy

Access permissions

Data validation

Participating in transactions

Template code for item classes

31.3.6. Batch-class rules

31.3.7. Test-class rules