What's up with Java formatting standards?

Question

I've always wondered about this:
The Standard:
public class HelloWorld{
  public static void main (String [] args){
    System.out.println("Hello World");
}VS.
The way I do it:
public class HelloWorld
  public static void main (String [] args)
    System.out.println("Hello World");
}I like my way because the code is more readable. Braces are matched on the same column, so it is much easier to trace braces, yet the first method is the standard that most people (including people in the industry) use... It's just always sorta bothered me, and I wanted to know if there is a reason that I'm not seeing that people do this? It gets especially nasty when there are a bunch of loops and other things nested. Following the braces then just gets insane...

Answer 1

(C: A simple explanation woulda sufficed. But who
cares about vertical space? What about the case when
a certain loop takes up more than a page or something
like that, then tracing the brace back is very
difficult because you can't trace it back to the word
above it. Yeah, in my example, there's very little
difference and either way looks fine, but in some
situations with loops that have tons of if-else
statments in them and for loops and all that, it gets
pretty nasty, and hard to follow.i don't follow what you are saying. i care about vertical space because it is much easier to read. instead of confining my search to a open brace when traversing up code to find the scope, i look for any character that starts on the same column as my close brace. there is no difference really... unless you are doing some weird code... if a loop, as you say, goes past one page in your format, it may not go past one page in my format making my format more easily readable because it is condensed... it is all a matter of opinion but whenever i get code like yours, i run it through Eclipse to condense it down to a more readable format (for me).