What's up with the Sun Java coding convention

Question

I thought Sun leading the Java development should also be a better example on the Java coding convention.
They do publish a coding convention guide, I believe. But looking at Java core library's source code, so long, coding convention! :(
Just looked at ArrayList.java source for the version 1.4.2. There are method names like RangeCheck(). Shouldn't a method start with lowercase? Shouldn't a method be verb first like checkRange() instead?
And there are statements like this all over the place:
if (foo)
bar();
shouldn't that be:
if (foo) {
bar();
man, I thought this golden version of the Java Foundation Library code should be almost perfect by this time now. :(
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Answer 1

if (foo)
bar();
// I think the most important part of the if statement
is the condition for executing the following
statement(s).
// Using this style the condition is separated from
the code by white space which I find easier to read
// It's also easier to maintain as you don't have to
remember to add {} if you need to add additional
statements.I follow camickr's example. I think it's more readable. Whitespace is a good thing, IMO, and not used enough. Putting the brace on the next line down not only makes it easier to associate opening and closing braces visually but it sets the block of code off visually from the rest. Personally, I get a gestalt effect from that.
I don't worry about a byte here or there. It might sound like heresy, but Moore's Law makes memory and disk space cheaper and more plentiful all the time. I think maintainability and readability trumps being miserly about bytes in my thinking these days. ;)
Spare me the "inefficiency" lectures. I know - performance matters. The 80/20 rule says that byte won't be killer.
It's too bad that Sun doesn't follow their own conventions. Don't they do code review there?
Joshua Bloch didn't follow the standard? Too bad - he did a great job on the collections design. Maybe he delegated it to a younger coder and missed that during the code review. Yeah, that's it! ;)