Coding Style and format

Question

Hello everyone,
For past few days, I am thinking that in java, format of writing a method is as follows:-
return_value method_name(){ //bracket starts here
//body
}Even any book on java specified this kind of formatting.
whereas, in c, c++ we use to write :-
return_value function_name()
{ //starting bracket in next line
//body
}But if you consider readability, then surely the second format is good, where the starting bracket starts at a new line. Isn't it so?
Even I asked this question to some IT people, who visited our campus few days back.. they said that java uses the old K&R style of writing methods, whereas VC++ i.e Microsoft uses the new technique i.e writing { on next line.
Why is there such difference. and moreover if you consider readability then in my opinion, obviously the second style is better as it distinguishes the starting and closing brackets. so scope can be easily understood.
Please put your views.
Thanking you.

Answer 1

Here's some of my real production code. I put everything on a new line....I used to do it the other way, but I like it much better like this.
    public void createJob(Job job)
        String jobName = job.getJobName();
        Job dbJob = null;
        try
            List jobs = super.executeNamedQuery( "getJobFromName", new String[]
            { jobName } );
            if ( !jobs.isEmpty() )
                dbJob = (Job) jobs.get( 0 );
                job.setJobId( dbJob.getJobId() );
                job.setJobDescription( dbJob.getJobDescription() );
            if ( dbJob == null )
                create( job );
        catch ( MaxNumOfResultsExceededException exp )
            throw new DaoException( "Max row number exceed.", exp );
    }