Although Jalopy ships with sensible default settings (mimicking the Sun Java coding convention), you most likely want to configure the formatter to match your needs (adding copyright headers, tune Javadoc handling and the like). For such, Jalopy comes with a graphical configuration tool that lets you interactively customize the settings. See Chapter 2, Configuration for an in-depth discussion of the available options.

To display the settings dialog you should use the provided wrapper script for your platform, called jalopy.xxx (available in the /bin folder of the distribution).

jalopy --configure

Jalopy comes as an exectuable JAR file, you therefore can make use of the -jar option of the Java launcher:

java -jar <path_to>\jalopy-Help.jar --configure

Or you give the classpath directly to the launcher

java -cp <path_to>\jalopy-Help.jar Jalopy --configure

Of course, you can externally configure the classpath yourself by adding all .jar files as usual and then type

java Jalopy --configure

on the console.