We are in the process of defining our software development process and wanted to get some feed back from the group about this topic.

Our team is spread out - US, Canada and India - and I would like to put into place some simple standard rules that all teams will apply to their code.

We make use of Clear Case/Quest and RAD

I have been looking at PMD, CPP, checkstyle and FindBugs as a start.

My thought is to just put these into ANT and have the developers run these manually. I realize doing this you have to have some trust in that each developer will do this.

The other thought is to add in some builders in to the IDE which would run a subset of the rules (keep the build process light) and then add another set (heavy) when they check in the code.

Some other ideals is to make use of something like Cruse Control and have it set up to run these static analysis tools along with the unit test when ever Clear Case/Quest is idle.

Wondering if others have done this and if it was successfully or can provide lessons learned.