diff --git a/acegi_checkstyle.xml b/acegi_checkstyle.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!--
-/*
- * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
- -->
-
-<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
-    "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.2//EN"
-    "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_2.dtd">
-
-<!--
-
-  Checkstyle is very configurable. Be sure to read the documentation at
-  http://checkstyle.sf.net (or in your downloaded distribution).
-
-  Most Checks are configurable, be sure to consult the documentation.
-
-  To completely disable a check, just comment it out or delete it from the file.
-
-  Finally, it is worth reading the documentation.
-
--->
-
-<module name="Checker">
-
-    <!-- Checks that a package.html file exists for each package.     -->
-    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html#PackageHtml -->
-    <!-- module name="PackageHtml"/ -->
-
-    <!-- Checks whether files end with a new line.                        -->
-    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#NewlineAtEndOfFile -->
-    <module name="NewlineAtEndOfFile"/>
-
-    <!-- Checks that property files contain the same keys.         -->
-    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#Translation -->
-    <module name="Translation"/>
-
-
-    <module name="TreeWalker">
-
-        <property name="cacheFile" value="${checkstyle.cache.file}"/>
-
-        <!-- Checks for Javadoc comments.                     -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html -->
-<!--
-        <module name="JavadocMethod"/>
-        <module name="JavadocType"/>
-        <module name="JavadocVariable"/>
-        <module name="JavadocStyle"/>
--->
-
-        <!-- Checks for Naming Conventions.                  -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_naming.html -->
-        <module name="ConstantName">
-            <!-- logger variables break normal constant syntax. We need to allow lower case too -->
-            <property name="format" value="^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*(_[A-Z0-9]+)*$"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="LocalFinalVariableName"/>
-        <module name="LocalVariableName"/>
-        <module name="MemberName"/>
-        <module name="MethodName"/>
-        <module name="PackageName"/>
-        <module name="ParameterName"/>
-        <module name="StaticVariableName"/>
-        <module name="TypeName"/>
-
-
-        <!-- Checks for Headers                                -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_header.html   -->
-        <!-- <module name="Header">                            -->
-            <!-- The follow property value demonstrates the ability     -->
-            <!-- to have access to ANT properties. In this case it uses -->
-            <!-- the ${basedir} property to allow Checkstyle to be run  -->
-            <!-- from any directory within a project. See property      -->
-            <!-- expansion,                                             -->
-            <!-- http://checkstyle.sf.net/config.html#properties        -->
-            <!-- <property                                              -->
-            <!--     name="headerFile"                                  -->
-            <!--     value="${basedir}/java.header"/>                   -->
-        <!-- </module> -->
-
-        <!-- Following interprets the header file as regular expressions. -->
-        <!-- <module name="RegexpHeader"/>                                -->
-
-
-        <!-- Checks for imports                              -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_imports.html -->
-        <module name="AvoidStarImport">
-            <property name="excludes" value="javax.servlet,java.util"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="IllegalImport"/> <!-- defaults to sun.* packages -->
-        <module name="RedundantImport"/>
-        <!--module name="UnusedImports"/ -->
-
-
-        <!-- Checks for Size Violations.                    -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html -->
-        <module name="FileLength"/>
-        <module name="LineLength">
-            <property name="max" value="125"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="MethodLength"/>
-        <module name="ParameterNumber"/>
-
-
-        <!-- Checks for whitespace                               -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
-        <module name="EmptyForIteratorPad"/>
-        <module name="MethodParamPad"/>
-        <module name="NoWhitespaceAfter"/>
-        <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"/>
-        <module name="OperatorWrap"/>
-        <module name="ParenPad"/>
-        <module name="TypecastParenPad"/>
-        <module name="TabCharacter"/>
-        <module name="WhitespaceAfter"/>
-      <!--
-        <module name="WhitespaceAround">
-            <property name="allowEmptyMethods" value="true"/>
-            <property name="allowEmptyConstructors" value="true"/>
-        </module>
-        -->
-
-        <!-- Modifier Checks                                    -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_modifiers.html -->
-        <module name="ModifierOrder"/>
-        <module name="RedundantModifier"/>
-
-
-        <!-- Checks for blocks. You know, those {}'s         -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_blocks.html -->
-        <module name="AvoidNestedBlocks"/>
-        <!-- module name="EmptyBlock"/ -->
-        <module name="LeftCurly"/>
-        <module name="NeedBraces"/>
-        <module name="RightCurly"/>
-
-
-        <!-- Checks for common coding problems               -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_coding.html -->
-        <!-- module name="AvoidInlineConditionals"/ -->
-        <module name="DoubleCheckedLocking"/>    <!-- MY FAVOURITE -->
-        <module name="EmptyStatement"/>
-        <!-- module name="EqualsHashCode"/ -->
-      <!--
-        <module name="HiddenField">
-            <property name="ignoreConstructorParameter" value="true"/>
-            <property name="ignoreSetter" value="true"/>
-        </module>
-        -->
-        <module name="IllegalInstantiation"/>
-        <module name="InnerAssignment"/>
-        <!-- module name="MagicNumber"/ -->
-        <module name="MissingSwitchDefault"/>
-      <!--
-        <module name="RedundantThrows">
-            <property name="allowUnchecked" value="true"/>
-        </module>
-       -->
-      <!--
-        <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression"/>
-        <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn"/>
-      -->
-        <!-- Checks for class design                         -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_design.html -->
-        <!-- module name="DesignForExtension"/ -->
-        <module name="FinalClass"/>
-        <module name="HideUtilityClassConstructor"/>
-        <module name="InterfaceIsType"/>
-        <module name="VisibilityModifier">
-            <!-- logger variables are often protected -->
-            <property name="protectedAllowed" value="true"/>
-        </module>
-
-
-        <!-- Miscellaneous other checks.                   -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html -->
-        <module name="ArrayTypeStyle"/>
-        <!-- module name="FinalParameters"/ -->
-        <!--
-        <module name="GenericIllegalRegexp">
-            <property name="format" value="\s+$"/>
-            <property name="message" value="Line has trailing spaces."/>
-        </module>
-        -->
-        <!-- module name="TrailingComment"/ -->
-        <!-- module name="TodoComment"/ -->
-        <module name="UpperEll"/>
-
-    </module>
-
-</module>