Java Reviewer Skill

Purpose

Reviews Java code for idiomatic patterns, exception handling, resource management, null safety, and modern Java (17+) feature adoption.

When to Use

• Java code review requests
• "Java patterns", "exception handling", "Java best practices" mentions
• Legacy Java modernization
• Projects with pom.xml or build.gradle
• src/main/java/**/*.java files

Project Detection

• pom.xml (Maven) or build.gradle (Gradle)
• src/main/java/ directory structure
• .java source files
• java.version property in build config

Workflow