HBASE-8918 Removes redundant identifiers from interfaces

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hbase/trunk@1502128 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/Abortable.java

@@ -35,11 +35,11 @@ public interface Abortable {
    * @param why Why we're aborting.
    * @param e Throwable that caused abort. Can be null.
    */
-  public void abort(String why, Throwable e);
+  void abort(String why, Throwable e);
   
   /**
    * Check if the server or client was aborted. 
    * @return true if the server or client was aborted, false otherwise
    */
-  public boolean isAborted();
+  boolean isAborted();
 }

hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/Coprocessor.java

@@ -26,21 +26,21 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 @InterfaceAudience.Public
 @InterfaceStability.Evolving
 public interface Coprocessor {
-  static final int VERSION = 1;
+  int VERSION = 1;
 
   /** Highest installation priority */
-  static final int PRIORITY_HIGHEST = 0;
+  int PRIORITY_HIGHEST = 0;
   /** High (system) installation priority */
-  static final int PRIORITY_SYSTEM = Integer.MAX_VALUE / 4;
+  int PRIORITY_SYSTEM = Integer.MAX_VALUE / 4;
   /** Default installation priority for user coprocessors */
-  static final int PRIORITY_USER = Integer.MAX_VALUE / 2;
+  int PRIORITY_USER = Integer.MAX_VALUE / 2;
   /** Lowest installation priority */
-  static final int PRIORITY_LOWEST = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
+  int PRIORITY_LOWEST = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
 
   /**
    * Lifecycle state of a given coprocessor instance.
    */
-  public enum State {
+  enum State {
     UNINSTALLED,
     INSTALLED,
     STARTING,

hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/CoprocessorEnvironment.java

@@ -30,26 +30,26 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 public interface CoprocessorEnvironment {
 
   /** @return the Coprocessor interface version */
-  public int getVersion();
+  int getVersion();
 
   /** @return the HBase version as a string (e.g. "0.21.0") */
-  public String getHBaseVersion();
+  String getHBaseVersion();
 
   /** @return the loaded coprocessor instance */
-  public Coprocessor getInstance();
+  Coprocessor getInstance();
 
   /** @return the priority assigned to the loaded coprocessor */
-  public int getPriority();
+  int getPriority();
 
   /** @return the load sequence number */
-  public int getLoadSequence();
+  int getLoadSequence();
 
   /** @return the configuration */
-  public Configuration getConfiguration();
+  Configuration getConfiguration();
 
   /**
    * @return an interface for accessing the given table
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public HTableInterface getTable(byte[] tableName) throws IOException;
+  HTableInterface getTable(byte[] tableName) throws IOException;
 }

hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/Server.java

@@ -32,20 +32,20 @@ public interface Server extends Abortable, Stoppable {
   /**
    * Gets the configuration object for this server.
    */
-  public Configuration getConfiguration();
+  Configuration getConfiguration();
 
   /**
    * Gets the ZooKeeper instance for this server.
    */
-  public ZooKeeperWatcher getZooKeeper();
+  ZooKeeperWatcher getZooKeeper();
 
   /**
    * @return Master's instance of {@link CatalogTracker}
    */
-  public CatalogTracker getCatalogTracker();
+  CatalogTracker getCatalogTracker();
 
   /**
    * @return The unique server name for this server.
    */
-  public ServerName getServerName();
+  ServerName getServerName();
 }

hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/Stoppable.java

@@ -29,10 +29,10 @@ public interface Stoppable {
    * Stop this service.
    * @param why Why we're stopping.
    */
-  public void stop(String why);
+  void stop(String why);
 
   /**
    * @return True if {@link #stop(String)} has been closed.
    */
-  public boolean isStopped();
+  boolean isStopped();
 }

hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/catalog/MetaReader.java

@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ public class MetaReader {
      * @return True if we are to proceed scanning the table, else false if
      * we are to stop now.
      */
-    public boolean visit(final Result r) throws IOException;
+    boolean visit(final Result r) throws IOException;
   }
 
   /**

hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/AsyncProcess.java

@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ class AsyncProcess<CResult> {
    * </li>
    * </list>
    */
-  static interface AsyncProcessCallback<CResult> {
+  interface AsyncProcessCallback<CResult> {
 
     /**
      * Called on success. originalIndex holds the index in the action list.

hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/Attributes.java

@@ -34,18 +34,18 @@ public interface Attributes {
    * @param name attribute name
    * @param value attribute value
    */
-  public void setAttribute(String name, byte[] value);
+  void setAttribute(String name, byte[] value);
 
   /**
    * Gets an attribute
    * @param name attribute name
    * @return attribute value if attribute is set, <tt>null</tt> otherwise
    */
-  public byte[] getAttribute(String name);
+  byte[] getAttribute(String name);
 
   /**
    * Gets all attributes
    * @return unmodifiable map of all attributes
    */
-  public Map<String, byte[]> getAttributesMap();
+  Map<String, byte[]> getAttributesMap();
 }

hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/ClusterStatusListener.java

@@ -82,19 +82,19 @@ class ClusterStatusListener implements Closeable {
      *
      * @param sn - the server name
      */
-    public void newDead(ServerName sn);
+    void newDead(ServerName sn);
   }
 
 
   /**
    * The interface to be implented by a listener of a cluster status event.
    */
-  static interface Listener extends Closeable {
+  interface Listener extends Closeable {
     /**
      * Called to close the resources, if any. Cannot throw an exception.
      */
     @Override
-    public void close();
+    void close();
 
     /**
      * Called to connect.
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ class ClusterStatusListener implements Closeable {
      * @param conf Configuration to use.
      * @throws IOException
      */
-    public void connect(Configuration conf) throws IOException;
+    void connect(Configuration conf) throws IOException;
   }
 
   public ClusterStatusListener(DeadServerHandler dsh, Configuration conf,

hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HConnection.java

@@ -62,10 +62,10 @@ public interface HConnection extends Abortable, Closeable {
   /**
    * @return Configuration instance being used by this HConnection instance.
    */
-  public Configuration getConfiguration();
+  Configuration getConfiguration();
 
   /** @return - true if the master server is running */
-  public boolean isMasterRunning()
+  boolean isMasterRunning()
   throws MasterNotRunningException, ZooKeeperConnectionException;
 
   /**
@@ -76,21 +76,21 @@ public interface HConnection extends Abortable, Closeable {
    * @return true if the table is enabled, false otherwise
    * @throws IOException if a remote or network exception occurs
    */
-  public boolean isTableEnabled(byte[] tableName) throws IOException;
+  boolean isTableEnabled(byte[] tableName) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * @param tableName table name
    * @return true if the table is disabled, false otherwise
    * @throws IOException if a remote or network exception occurs
    */
-  public boolean isTableDisabled(byte[] tableName) throws IOException;
+  boolean isTableDisabled(byte[] tableName) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * @param tableName table name
    * @return true if all regions of the table are available, false otherwise
    * @throws IOException if a remote or network exception occurs
    */
-  public boolean isTableAvailable(byte[] tableName) throws IOException;
+  boolean isTableAvailable(byte[] tableName) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Use this api to check if the table has been created with the specified number of
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ public interface HConnection extends Abortable, Closeable {
    * @throws IOException
    *           if a remote or network exception occurs
    */
-  public boolean isTableAvailable(byte[] tableName, byte[][] splitKeys) throws IOException;
+  boolean isTableAvailable(byte[] tableName, byte[][] splitKeys) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * List all the userspace tables.  In other words, scan the META table.
@@ -116,14 +116,14 @@ public interface HConnection extends Abortable, Closeable {
    * @return - returns an array of HTableDescriptors
    * @throws IOException if a remote or network exception occurs
    */
-  public HTableDescriptor[] listTables() throws IOException;
+  HTableDescriptor[] listTables() throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * @param tableName table name
    * @return table metadata
    * @throws IOException if a remote or network exception occurs
    */
-  public HTableDescriptor getHTableDescriptor(byte[] tableName)
+  HTableDescriptor getHTableDescriptor(byte[] tableName)
   throws IOException;
 
   /**
@@ -135,14 +135,15 @@ public interface HConnection extends Abortable, Closeable {
    * question
    * @throws IOException if a remote or network exception occurs
    */
-  public HRegionLocation locateRegion(final byte [] tableName,
+  HRegionLocation locateRegion(
-      final byte [] row)
+    final byte[] tableName, final byte[] row
+  )
   throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Allows flushing the region cache.
    */
-  public void clearRegionCache();
+  void clearRegionCache();
 
   /**
    * Allows flushing the region cache of all locations that pertain to
@@ -150,13 +151,13 @@ public interface HConnection extends Abortable, Closeable {
    * @param tableName Name of the table whose regions we are to remove from
    * cache.
    */
-  public void clearRegionCache(final byte [] tableName);
+  void clearRegionCache(final byte[] tableName);
 
   /**
    * Deletes cached locations for the specific region.
    * @param location The location object for the region, to be purged from cache.
    */
-  public void deleteCachedRegionLocation(final HRegionLocation location);
+  void deleteCachedRegionLocation(final HRegionLocation location);
 
   /**
    * Find the location of the region of <i>tableName</i> that <i>row</i>
@@ -167,8 +168,9 @@ public interface HConnection extends Abortable, Closeable {
    * question
    * @throws IOException if a remote or network exception occurs
    */
-  public HRegionLocation relocateRegion(final byte [] tableName,
+  HRegionLocation relocateRegion(
-      final byte [] row)
+    final byte[] tableName, final byte[] row
+  )
   throws IOException;
 
   /**
@@ -179,8 +181,9 @@ public interface HConnection extends Abortable, Closeable {
    * @param exception the exception if any. Can be null.
    * @param source the previous location
    */
-  public void updateCachedLocations(byte[] tableName, byte[] rowkey,
+  void updateCachedLocations(
-                                    Object exception, HRegionLocation source);
+    byte[] tableName, byte[] rowkey, Object exception, HRegionLocation source
+  );
 
   /**
    * Gets the location of the region of <i>regionName</i>.
@@ -189,7 +192,7 @@ public interface HConnection extends Abortable, Closeable {
    * question
    * @throws IOException if a remote or network exception occurs
    */
-  public HRegionLocation locateRegion(final byte [] regionName)
+  HRegionLocation locateRegion(final byte[] regionName)
   throws IOException;
 
   /**
@@ -198,7 +201,7 @@ public interface HConnection extends Abortable, Closeable {
    * @return list of region locations for all regions of table
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public List<HRegionLocation> locateRegions(final byte[] tableName)
+  List<HRegionLocation> locateRegions(final byte[] tableName)
   throws IOException;
 
   /**
@@ -210,18 +213,19 @@ public interface HConnection extends Abortable, Closeable {
    * @return list of region locations for all regions of table
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public List<HRegionLocation> locateRegions(final byte[] tableName, final boolean useCache,
+  List<HRegionLocation> locateRegions(
-      final boolean offlined) throws IOException;
+    final byte[] tableName, final boolean useCache, final boolean offlined
+  ) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Returns a {@link MasterAdminKeepAliveConnection} to the active master
    */
-  public MasterAdminService.BlockingInterface getMasterAdmin() throws IOException;
+  MasterAdminService.BlockingInterface getMasterAdmin() throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Returns an {@link MasterMonitorKeepAliveConnection} to the active master
    */
-  public MasterMonitorService.BlockingInterface getMasterMonitor() throws IOException;
+  MasterMonitorService.BlockingInterface getMasterMonitor() throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Establishes a connection to the region server at the specified address.
@@ -229,7 +233,7 @@ public interface HConnection extends Abortable, Closeable {
    * @return proxy for HRegionServer
    * @throws IOException if a remote or network exception occurs
    */
-  public AdminService.BlockingInterface getAdmin(final ServerName serverName) throws IOException;
+  AdminService.BlockingInterface getAdmin(final ServerName serverName) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Establishes a connection to the region server at the specified address, and returns
@@ -240,7 +244,7 @@ public interface HConnection extends Abortable, Closeable {
    * @throws IOException if a remote or network exception occurs
    *
    */
-  public ClientService.BlockingInterface getClient(final ServerName serverName) throws IOException;
+  ClientService.BlockingInterface getClient(final ServerName serverName) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Establishes a connection to the region server at the specified address.
@@ -250,7 +254,7 @@ public interface HConnection extends Abortable, Closeable {
    * @throws IOException if a remote or network exception occurs
    * @deprecated You can pass master flag but nothing special is done.
    */
-  public AdminService.BlockingInterface getAdmin(final ServerName serverName, boolean getMaster)
+  AdminService.BlockingInterface getAdmin(final ServerName serverName, boolean getMaster)
       throws IOException;
 
   /**
@@ -277,7 +281,7 @@ public interface HConnection extends Abortable, Closeable {
    * @throws RuntimeException other unspecified error
    */
   @Deprecated
-  public <T> T getRegionServerWithRetries(ServerCallable<T> callable)
+  <T> T getRegionServerWithRetries(ServerCallable<T> callable)
   throws IOException, RuntimeException;
 
   /**
@@ -290,7 +294,7 @@ public interface HConnection extends Abortable, Closeable {
    * @throws RuntimeException other unspecified error
    */
   @Deprecated
-  public <T> T getRegionServerWithoutRetries(ServerCallable<T> callable)
+  <T> T getRegionServerWithoutRetries(ServerCallable<T> callable)
   throws IOException, RuntimeException;
 
   /**
@@ -309,8 +313,9 @@ public interface HConnection extends Abortable, Closeable {
    * @deprecated since 0.96 - Use {@link HTableInterface#batch} instead
    */
   @Deprecated
-  public void processBatch(List<? extends Row> actions, final byte[] tableName,
+  void processBatch(
-      ExecutorService pool, Object[] results)
+    List<? extends Row> actions, final byte[] tableName, ExecutorService pool, Object[] results
+  )
       throws IOException, InterruptedException;
 
   /**
@@ -319,11 +324,13 @@ public interface HConnection extends Abortable, Closeable {
    * @deprecated since 0.96 - Use {@link HTableInterface#batchCallback} instead
    */
   @Deprecated
-  public <R> void processBatchCallback(List<? extends Row> list,
+  <R> void processBatchCallback(
-      byte[] tableName,
+    List<? extends Row> list,
-      ExecutorService pool,
+    byte[] tableName,
-      Object[] results,
+    ExecutorService pool,
-      Batch.Callback<R> callback) throws IOException, InterruptedException;
+    Object[] results,
+    Batch.Callback<R> callback
+  ) throws IOException, InterruptedException;
 
   /**
    * Enable or disable region cache prefetch for the table. It will be
@@ -332,8 +339,9 @@ public interface HConnection extends Abortable, Closeable {
    * @param tableName name of table to configure.
    * @param enable Set to true to enable region cache prefetch.
    */
-  public void setRegionCachePrefetch(final byte[] tableName,
+  void setRegionCachePrefetch(
-      final boolean enable);
+    final byte[] tableName, final boolean enable
+  );
 
   /**
    * Check whether region cache prefetch is enabled or not.
@@ -341,34 +349,34 @@ public interface HConnection extends Abortable, Closeable {
    * @return true if table's region cache prefetch is enabled. Otherwise
    * it is disabled.
    */
-  public boolean getRegionCachePrefetch(final byte[] tableName);
+  boolean getRegionCachePrefetch(final byte[] tableName);
 
   /**
    * @return the number of region servers that are currently running
    * @throws IOException if a remote or network exception occurs
    * @deprecated This method will be changed from public to package protected.
    */
-  public int getCurrentNrHRS() throws IOException;
+  int getCurrentNrHRS() throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * @param tableNames List of table names
    * @return HTD[] table metadata
    * @throws IOException if a remote or network exception occurs
    */
-  public HTableDescriptor[] getHTableDescriptors(List<String> tableNames)
+  HTableDescriptor[] getHTableDescriptors(List<String> tableNames)
   throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * @return true if this connection is closed
    */
-  public boolean isClosed();
+  boolean isClosed();
 
 
   /**
    * Clear any caches that pertain to server name <code>sn</code>.
    * @param sn A server name
    */
-  public void clearCaches(final ServerName sn);
+  void clearCaches(final ServerName sn);
 
   /**
    * This function allows HBaseAdmin and potentially others to get a shared MasterMonitor
@@ -377,7 +385,7 @@ public interface HConnection extends Abortable, Closeable {
    * @throws MasterNotRunningException
    */
   // TODO: Why is this in the public interface when the returned type is shutdown package access?
-  public MasterMonitorKeepAliveConnection getKeepAliveMasterMonitorService()
+  MasterMonitorKeepAliveConnection getKeepAliveMasterMonitorService()
   throws MasterNotRunningException;
 
   /**
@@ -387,11 +395,11 @@ public interface HConnection extends Abortable, Closeable {
    * @throws MasterNotRunningException
    */
   // TODO: Why is this in the public interface when the returned type is shutdown package access?
-  public MasterAdminKeepAliveConnection getKeepAliveMasterAdminService() throws MasterNotRunningException;
+  MasterAdminKeepAliveConnection getKeepAliveMasterAdminService() throws MasterNotRunningException;
 
   /**
    * @param serverName
    * @return true if the server is known as dead, false otherwise.
    */
-  public boolean isDeadServer(ServerName serverName);
+  boolean isDeadServer(ServerName serverName);
 }

hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HTableInterface.java

@@ -127,8 +127,9 @@ public interface HTableInterface extends Closeable {
    * Same as {@link #batch(List, Object[])}, but with a callback.
    * @since 0.96.0
    */
-  public <R> void batchCallback(
+  <R> void batchCallback(
-    final List<? extends Row> actions, final Object[] results, final Batch.Callback<R> callback)
+    final List<? extends Row> actions, final Object[] results, final Batch.Callback<R> callback
+  )
     throws IOException, InterruptedException;
 
 
@@ -136,8 +137,9 @@ public interface HTableInterface extends Closeable {
    * Same as {@link #batch(List)}, but with a callback.
    * @since 0.96.0
    */
-  public <R> Object[] batchCallback(
+  <R> Object[] batchCallback(
-    List<? extends Row> actions, Batch.Callback<R> callback) throws IOException,
+    List<? extends Row> actions, Batch.Callback<R> callback
+  ) throws IOException,
     InterruptedException;
 
   /**
@@ -309,7 +311,7 @@ public interface HTableInterface extends Closeable {
    * @param rm object that specifies the set of mutations to perform atomically
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public void mutateRow(final RowMutations rm) throws IOException;
+  void mutateRow(final RowMutations rm) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Appends values to one or more columns within a single row.
@@ -324,7 +326,7 @@ public interface HTableInterface extends Closeable {
    * @throws IOException e
    * @return values of columns after the append operation (maybe null)
    */
-  public Result append(final Append append) throws IOException;
+  Result append(final Append append) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Increments one or more columns within a single row.
@@ -339,7 +341,7 @@ public interface HTableInterface extends Closeable {
    * @throws IOException e
    * @return values of columns after the increment
    */
-  public Result increment(final Increment increment) throws IOException;
+  Result increment(final Increment increment) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * See {@link #incrementColumnValue(byte[], byte[], byte[], long, Durability)}
@@ -493,7 +495,7 @@ public interface HTableInterface extends Closeable {
    * @param autoFlush
    *        Whether or not to enable 'auto-flush'.
    */
-  public void setAutoFlush(boolean autoFlush);
+  void setAutoFlush(boolean autoFlush);
 
   /**
    * Turns 'auto-flush' on or off.
@@ -522,7 +524,7 @@ public interface HTableInterface extends Closeable {
    *        Whether to keep Put failures in the writeBuffer
    * @see #flushCommits
    */
-  public void setAutoFlush(boolean autoFlush, boolean clearBufferOnFail);
+  void setAutoFlush(boolean autoFlush, boolean clearBufferOnFail);
 
   /**
    * Returns the maximum size in bytes of the write buffer for this HTable.
@@ -531,7 +533,7 @@ public interface HTableInterface extends Closeable {
    * {@code hbase.client.write.buffer}.
    * @return The size of the write buffer in bytes.
    */
-  public long getWriteBufferSize();
+  long getWriteBufferSize();
 
   /**
    * Sets the size of the buffer in bytes.
@@ -541,5 +543,5 @@ public interface HTableInterface extends Closeable {
    * @param writeBufferSize The new write buffer size, in bytes.
    * @throws IOException if a remote or network exception occurs.
    */
-  public void setWriteBufferSize(long writeBufferSize) throws IOException;
+  void setWriteBufferSize(long writeBufferSize) throws IOException;
 }

hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/MasterAdminKeepAliveConnection.java

@@ -40,5 +40,5 @@ extends MasterAdminProtos.MasterAdminService.BlockingInterface {
    */
   // The Closeable Interface wants to throw an IOE out of a close.
   //  Thats a PITA.  Do this below instead of Closeable.
-  public void close();
+  void close();
-}
+}

hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/MetaScanner.java

@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ public class MetaScanner {
      * @return A boolean to know if it should continue to loop in the region
      * @throws IOException e
      */
-    public boolean processRow(Result rowResult) throws IOException;
+    boolean processRow(Result rowResult) throws IOException;
   }
 
   public static abstract class MetaScannerVisitorBase implements MetaScannerVisitor {

hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/ResultScanner.java

@@ -38,17 +38,17 @@ public interface ResultScanner extends Closeable, Iterable<Result> {
    * exhausted.
    * @throws IOException e
    */
-  public Result next() throws IOException;
+  Result next() throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * @param nbRows number of rows to return
    * @return Between zero and <param>nbRows</param> Results
    * @throws IOException e
    */
-  public Result [] next(int nbRows) throws IOException;
+  Result [] next(int nbRows) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Closes the scanner and releases any resources it has allocated
    */
-  public void close();
+  void close();
 }

hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/Row.java

@@ -30,5 +30,5 @@ public interface Row extends Comparable<Row> {
   /**
    * @return The row.
    */
-  public byte [] getRow();
+  byte [] getRow();
-}
+}

hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/coprocessor/Batch.java

@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ public abstract class Batch {
    * {@link Batch.Call#call(Object)}
    * @param <R> the return type from {@link Batch.Call#call(Object)}
    */
-  public static interface Call<T,R> {
+  public interface Call<T,R> {
-    public R call(T instance) throws IOException;
+    R call(T instance) throws IOException;
   }
 
   /**
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ public abstract class Batch {
    * @param <R> the return type from the associated {@link Batch.Call#call(Object)}
    * @see org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable#coprocessorService(Class, byte[], byte[], org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.coprocessor.Batch.Call)
    */
-  public static interface Callback<R> {
+  public interface Callback<R> {
-    public void update(byte[] region, byte[] row, R result);
+    void update(byte[] region, byte[] row, R result);
   }
-}
+}

hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/ReplicationPeers.java

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ public interface ReplicationPeers {
    * Initialize the ReplicationPeers interface.
    * @throws KeeperException
    */
-  public void init() throws IOException, KeeperException;
+  void init() throws IOException, KeeperException;
 
   /**
    * Add a new remote slave cluster for replication.
@@ -54,65 +54,65 @@ public interface ReplicationPeers {
    * @param clusterKey the concatenation of the slave cluster's:
    *          hbase.zookeeper.quorum:hbase.zookeeper.property.clientPort:zookeeper.znode.parent
    */
-  public void addPeer(String peerId, String clusterKey) throws IOException;
+  void addPeer(String peerId, String clusterKey) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Removes a remote slave cluster and stops the replication to it.
    * @param peerId a short that identifies the cluster
    */
-  public void removePeer(String peerId) throws IOException;
+  void removePeer(String peerId) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Restart the replication to the specified remote slave cluster.
    * @param peerId a short that identifies the cluster
    */
-  public void enablePeer(String peerId) throws IOException;
+  void enablePeer(String peerId) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Stop the replication to the specified remote slave cluster.
    * @param peerId a short that identifies the cluster
    */
-  public void disablePeer(String peerId) throws IOException;
+  void disablePeer(String peerId) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Get the replication status for the specified connected remote slave cluster.
    * @param peerId a short that identifies the cluster
    * @return true if replication is enabled, false otherwise.
    */
-  public boolean getStatusOfConnectedPeer(String peerId);
+  boolean getStatusOfConnectedPeer(String peerId);
 
   /**
    * Get a set of all connected remote slave clusters.
    * @return set of peer ids
    */
-  public Set<String> getConnectedPeers();
+  Set<String> getConnectedPeers();
 
   /**
    * List the cluster keys of all remote slave clusters (whether they are enabled/disabled or
    * connected/disconnected).
    * @return A map of peer ids to peer cluster keys
    */
-  public Map<String, String> getAllPeerClusterKeys();
+  Map<String, String> getAllPeerClusterKeys();
 
   /**
    * List the peer ids of all remote slave clusters (whether they are enabled/disabled or
    * connected/disconnected).
    * @return A list of peer ids
    */
-  public List<String> getAllPeerIds();
+  List<String> getAllPeerIds();
 
   /**
    * Attempt to connect to a new remote slave cluster.
    * @param peerId a short that identifies the cluster
    * @return true if a new connection was made, false if no new connection was made.
    */
-  public boolean connectToPeer(String peerId) throws IOException, KeeperException;
+  boolean connectToPeer(String peerId) throws IOException, KeeperException;
 
   /**
    * Disconnect from a remote slave cluster.
    * @param peerId a short that identifies the cluster
    */
-  public void disconnectFromPeer(String peerId);
+  void disconnectFromPeer(String peerId);
 
   /**
    * Returns all region servers from given connected remote slave cluster.
@@ -120,19 +120,19 @@ public interface ReplicationPeers {
    * @return addresses of all region servers in the peer cluster. Returns an empty list if the peer
    *         cluster is unavailable or there are no region servers in the cluster.
    */
-  public List<ServerName> getRegionServersOfConnectedPeer(String peerId);
+  List<ServerName> getRegionServersOfConnectedPeer(String peerId);
 
   /**
    * Returns the UUID of the provided peer id.
    * @param peerId the peer's ID that will be converted into a UUID
    * @return a UUID or null if the peer cluster does not exist or is not connected.
    */
-  public UUID getPeerUUID(String peerId);
+  UUID getPeerUUID(String peerId);
 
   /**
    * Returns the configuration needed to talk to the remote slave cluster.
    * @param peerId a short that identifies the cluster
    * @return the configuration for the peer cluster, null if it was unable to get the configuration
    */
-  public Configuration getPeerConf(String peerId) throws KeeperException;
+  Configuration getPeerConf(String peerId) throws KeeperException;
-}
+}

hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/ReplicationQueues.java

@@ -37,13 +37,13 @@ public interface ReplicationQueues {
    * @param serverName The server name of the region server that owns the replication queues this
    *          interface manages.
    */
-  public void init(String serverName) throws KeeperException;
+  void init(String serverName) throws KeeperException;
 
   /**
    * Remove a replication queue.
    * @param queueId a String that identifies the queue.
    */
-  public void removeQueue(String queueId);
+  void removeQueue(String queueId);
 
   /**
    * Add a new HLog file to the given queue. If the queue does not exist it is created.
@@ -51,14 +51,14 @@ public interface ReplicationQueues {
    * @param filename name of the HLog
    * @throws KeeperException
    */
-  public void addLog(String queueId, String filename) throws KeeperException;
+  void addLog(String queueId, String filename) throws KeeperException;
 
   /**
    * Remove an HLog file from the given queue.
    * @param queueId a String that identifies the queue.
    * @param filename name of the HLog
    */
-  public void removeLog(String queueId, String filename);
+  void removeLog(String queueId, String filename);
 
   /**
    * Set the current position for a specific HLog in a given queue.
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ public interface ReplicationQueues {
    * @param filename name of the HLog
    * @param position the current position in the file
    */
-  public void setLogPosition(String queueId, String filename, long position);
+  void setLogPosition(String queueId, String filename, long position);
 
   /**
    * Get the current position for a specific HLog in a given queue.
@@ -74,25 +74,25 @@ public interface ReplicationQueues {
    * @param filename name of the HLog
    * @return the current position in the file
    */
-  public long getLogPosition(String queueId, String filename) throws KeeperException;
+  long getLogPosition(String queueId, String filename) throws KeeperException;
 
   /**
    * Remove all replication queues for this region server.
    */
-  public void removeAllQueues();
+  void removeAllQueues();
 
   /**
    * Get a list of all HLogs in the given queue.
    * @param queueId a String that identifies the queue
    * @return a list of HLogs, null if this region server is dead and has no outstanding queues
    */
-  public List<String> getLogsInQueue(String queueId);
+  List<String> getLogsInQueue(String queueId);
 
   /**
    * Get a list of all queues for this region server.
    * @return a list of queueIds, null if this region server is dead and has no outstanding queues
    */
-  public List<String> getAllQueues();
+  List<String> getAllQueues();
 
   /**
    * Take ownership for the set of queues belonging to a dead region server.
@@ -100,12 +100,12 @@ public interface ReplicationQueues {
    * @return A SortedMap of the queues that have been claimed, including a SortedSet of HLogs in
    *         each queue. Returns an empty map if no queues were failed-over.
    */
-  public SortedMap<String, SortedSet<String>> claimQueues(String regionserver);
+  SortedMap<String, SortedSet<String>> claimQueues(String regionserver);
 
   /**
    * Get a list of all region servers that have outstanding replication queues. These servers could
    * be alive, dead or from a previous run of the cluster.
    * @return a list of server names
    */
-  public List<String> getListOfReplicators();
+  List<String> getListOfReplicators();
-}
+}

hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/ReplicationQueuesClient.java

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ public interface ReplicationQueuesClient {
    * be alive, dead or from a previous run of the cluster.
    * @return a list of server names
    */
-  public List<String> getListOfReplicators();
+  List<String> getListOfReplicators();
 
   /**
    * Get a list of all HLogs in the given queue on the given region server.
@@ -39,12 +39,12 @@ public interface ReplicationQueuesClient {
    * @param queueId a String that identifies the queue
    * @return a list of HLogs, null if this region server is dead and has no outstanding queues
    */
-  public List<String> getLogsInQueue(String serverName, String queueId);
+  List<String> getLogsInQueue(String serverName, String queueId);
 
   /**
    * Get a list of all queues for the specified region server.
    * @param serverName the server name of the region server that owns the set of queues
    * @return a list of queueIds, null if this region server is not a replicator.
    */
-  public List<String> getAllQueues(String serverName);
+  List<String> getAllQueues(String serverName);
-}
+}

hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/PoolMap.java

@@ -216,17 +216,17 @@ public class PoolMap<K, V> implements Map<K, V> {
   }
 
   protected interface Pool<R> {
-    public R get();
+    R get();
 
-    public R put(R resource);
+    R put(R resource);
 
-    public boolean remove(R resource);
+    boolean remove(R resource);
 
-    public void clear();
+    void clear();
 
-    public Collection<R> values();
+    Collection<R> values();
 
-    public int size();
+    int size();
   }
 
   public enum PoolType {

hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/CompoundConfiguration.java

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ public class CompoundConfiguration extends Configuration {
 
   // Devs: these APIs are the same contract as their counterparts in
   // Configuration.java
-  private static interface ImmutableConfigMap extends Iterable<Map.Entry<String,String>> {
+  private interface ImmutableConfigMap extends Iterable<Map.Entry<String,String>> {
     String get(String key);
     String getRaw(String key);
     Class<?> getClassByName(String name) throws ClassNotFoundException;

hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/KeyValue.java

@@ -2514,14 +2514,14 @@ public class KeyValue implements Cell, HeapSize, Cloneable {
   /**
    * Avoids redundant comparisons for better performance.
    */
-  public static interface SamePrefixComparator<T> {
+  public interface SamePrefixComparator<T> {
     /**
      * Compare two keys assuming that the first n bytes are the same.
      * @param commonPrefix How many bytes are the same.
      */
-    public int compareIgnoringPrefix(int commonPrefix,
+    int compareIgnoringPrefix(
-        T left, int loffset, int llength,
+      int commonPrefix, T left, int loffset, int llength, T right, int roffset, int rlength
-        T right, int roffset, int rlength);
+    );
   }
 
   /**

hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/codec/Codec.java

@@ -37,14 +37,14 @@ public interface Codec {
    * Call flush when done.  Some encoders may not put anything on the stream until flush is called.
    * On flush, let go of any resources used by the encoder.
    */
-  public interface Encoder extends CellOutputStream {}
+  interface Encoder extends CellOutputStream {}
 
   /**
    * Implementations should implicitly clean up any resources allocated when the
    * Decoder/CellScanner runs off the end of the cell block. Do this rather than require the user
    * call close explicitly.
    */
-  public interface Decoder extends CellScanner {};
+  interface Decoder extends CellScanner {};
 
   Decoder getDecoder(InputStream is);
   Encoder getEncoder(OutputStream os);

hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/HeapSize.java

@@ -45,5 +45,5 @@ public interface HeapSize {
    * @return Approximate 'exclusive deep size' of implementing object.  Includes
    * count of payload and hosting object sizings.
   */
-  public long heapSize();
+  long heapSize();
-}
+}

hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/encoding/DataBlockEncoder.java

@@ -57,9 +57,9 @@ public interface DataBlockEncoder {
    * @throws IOException
    *           If there is an error writing to output stream.
    */
-  public void encodeKeyValues(
+  void encodeKeyValues(
-      ByteBuffer in, boolean includesMemstoreTS,
+    ByteBuffer in, boolean includesMemstoreTS, HFileBlockEncodingContext encodingContext
-      HFileBlockEncodingContext encodingContext) throws IOException;
+  ) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Decode.
@@ -69,8 +69,9 @@ public interface DataBlockEncoder {
    * @return Uncompressed block of KeyValues.
    * @throws IOException If there is an error in source.
    */
-  public ByteBuffer decodeKeyValues(DataInputStream source,
+  ByteBuffer decodeKeyValues(
-      boolean includesMemstoreTS) throws IOException;
+    DataInputStream source, boolean includesMemstoreTS
+  ) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Uncompress.
@@ -82,8 +83,9 @@ public interface DataBlockEncoder {
    * @return Uncompressed block of KeyValues.
    * @throws IOException If there is an error in source.
    */
-  public ByteBuffer decodeKeyValues(DataInputStream source,
+  ByteBuffer decodeKeyValues(
-      int allocateHeaderLength, int skipLastBytes, boolean includesMemstoreTS)
+    DataInputStream source, int allocateHeaderLength, int skipLastBytes, boolean includesMemstoreTS
+  )
       throws IOException;
 
   /**
@@ -94,7 +96,7 @@ public interface DataBlockEncoder {
    * @param block encoded block we want index, the position will not change
    * @return First key in block.
    */
-  public ByteBuffer getFirstKeyInBlock(ByteBuffer block);
+  ByteBuffer getFirstKeyInBlock(ByteBuffer block);
 
   /**
    * Create a HFileBlock seeker which find KeyValues within a block.
@@ -103,8 +105,9 @@ public interface DataBlockEncoder {
    *          key-value pair
    * @return A newly created seeker.
    */
-  public EncodedSeeker createSeeker(RawComparator<byte[]> comparator,
+  EncodedSeeker createSeeker(
-      boolean includesMemstoreTS);
+    RawComparator<byte[]> comparator, boolean includesMemstoreTS
+  );
 
   /**
    * Creates a encoder specific encoding context
@@ -119,9 +122,9 @@ public interface DataBlockEncoder {
    *          is unknown
    * @return a newly created encoding context
    */
-  public HFileBlockEncodingContext newDataBlockEncodingContext(
+  HFileBlockEncodingContext newDataBlockEncodingContext(
-      Algorithm compressionAlgorithm, DataBlockEncoding encoding,
+    Algorithm compressionAlgorithm, DataBlockEncoding encoding, byte[] headerBytes
-      byte[] headerBytes);
+  );
 
   /**
    * Creates an encoder specific decoding context, which will prepare the data
@@ -131,8 +134,9 @@ public interface DataBlockEncoder {
    *          compression algorithm used if the data needs to be decompressed
    * @return a newly created decoding context
    */
-  public HFileBlockDecodingContext newDataBlockDecodingContext(
+  HFileBlockDecodingContext newDataBlockDecodingContext(
-      Algorithm compressionAlgorithm);
+    Algorithm compressionAlgorithm
+  );
 
   /**
    * An interface which enable to seek while underlying data is encoded.
@@ -140,19 +144,19 @@ public interface DataBlockEncoder {
    * It works on one HFileBlock, but it is reusable. See
    * {@link #setCurrentBuffer(ByteBuffer)}.
    */
-  public static interface EncodedSeeker {
+  interface EncodedSeeker {
     /**
      * Set on which buffer there will be done seeking.
      * @param buffer Used for seeking.
      */
-    public void setCurrentBuffer(ByteBuffer buffer);
+    void setCurrentBuffer(ByteBuffer buffer);
 
     /**
      * Does a deep copy of the key at the current position. A deep copy is
      * necessary because buffers are reused in the decoder.
      * @return key at current position
      */
-    public ByteBuffer getKeyDeepCopy();
+    ByteBuffer getKeyDeepCopy();
 
     /**
      * Does a shallow copy of the value at the current position. A shallow
@@ -160,25 +164,25 @@ public interface DataBlockEncoder {
      * of the original encoded buffer.
      * @return value at current position
      */
-    public ByteBuffer getValueShallowCopy();
+    ByteBuffer getValueShallowCopy();
 
     /** @return key value at current position with position set to limit */
-    public ByteBuffer getKeyValueBuffer();
+    ByteBuffer getKeyValueBuffer();
 
     /**
      * @return the KeyValue object at the current position. Includes memstore
      *         timestamp.
      */
-    public KeyValue getKeyValue();
+    KeyValue getKeyValue();
 
     /** Set position to beginning of given block */
-    public void rewind();
+    void rewind();
 
     /**
      * Move to next position
      * @return true on success, false if there is no more positions.
      */
-    public boolean next();
+    boolean next();
 
     /**
      * Moves the seeker position within the current block to:
@@ -197,7 +201,8 @@ public interface DataBlockEncoder {
      *          of an exact match. Does not matter in case of an inexact match.
      * @return 0 on exact match, 1 on inexact match.
      */
-    public int seekToKeyInBlock(byte[] key, int offset, int length,
+    int seekToKeyInBlock(
-        boolean seekBefore);
+      byte[] key, int offset, int length, boolean seekBefore
+    );
   }
 }

hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/encoding/HFileBlockDecodingContext.java

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ public interface HFileBlockDecodingContext {
   /**
    * @return the compression algorithm used by this decoding context
    */
-  public Compression.Algorithm getCompression();
+  Compression.Algorithm getCompression();
 
   /**
    * Perform all actions that need to be done before the encoder's real decoding process.
@@ -47,7 +47,12 @@ public interface HFileBlockDecodingContext {
    * @param offset data start offset in onDiskBlock
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public void prepareDecoding(int onDiskSizeWithoutHeader, int uncompressedSizeWithoutHeader,
+  void prepareDecoding(
-      ByteBuffer blockBufferWithoutHeader, byte[] onDiskBlock, int offset) throws IOException;
+    int onDiskSizeWithoutHeader,
+    int uncompressedSizeWithoutHeader,
+    ByteBuffer blockBufferWithoutHeader,
+    byte[] onDiskBlock,
+    int offset
+  ) throws IOException;
 
 }

hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/encoding/HFileBlockEncodingContext.java

@@ -34,39 +34,39 @@ public interface HFileBlockEncodingContext {
   /**
    * @return OutputStream to which encoded data is written
    */
-  public OutputStream getOutputStreamForEncoder();
+  OutputStream getOutputStreamForEncoder();
 
   /**
    * @return encoded and compressed bytes with header which are ready to write
    *         out to disk
    */
-  public byte[] getOnDiskBytesWithHeader();
+  byte[] getOnDiskBytesWithHeader();
 
   /**
    * @return encoded but not heavily compressed bytes with header which can be
    *         cached in block cache
    */
-  public byte[] getUncompressedBytesWithHeader();
+  byte[] getUncompressedBytesWithHeader();
 
   /**
    * @return the block type after encoding
    */
-  public BlockType getBlockType();
+  BlockType getBlockType();
 
   /**
    * @return the compression algorithm used by this encoding context
    */
-  public Compression.Algorithm getCompression();
+  Compression.Algorithm getCompression();
 
   /**
    * sets the dummy header bytes
    */
-  public void setDummyHeader(byte[] headerBytes);
+  void setDummyHeader(byte[] headerBytes);
 
   /**
    * @return the {@link DataBlockEncoding} encoding used
    */
-  public DataBlockEncoding getDataBlockEncoding();
+  DataBlockEncoding getDataBlockEncoding();
 
   /**
    * Do any action that needs to be performed after the encoding.
@@ -76,11 +76,11 @@ public interface HFileBlockEncodingContext {
    * @param blockType
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public void postEncoding(BlockType blockType) throws IOException;
+  void postEncoding(BlockType blockType) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Releases the resources used.
    */
-  public void close();
+  void close();
 
 }

hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/Bytes.java

@@ -1000,8 +1000,9 @@ public class Bytes {
   }
 
   interface Comparer<T> {
-    abstract public int compareTo(T buffer1, int offset1, int length1,
+    int compareTo(
-        T buffer2, int offset2, int length2);
+      T buffer1, int offset1, int length1, T buffer2, int offset2, int length2
+    );
   }
 
   @VisibleForTesting

hbase-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/ClassFinder.java

@@ -50,16 +50,16 @@ public class ClassFinder {
   private ClassFilter classFilter;
   private FileFilter fileFilter;
 
-  public static interface ResourcePathFilter {
+  public interface ResourcePathFilter {
-    public boolean isCandidatePath(String resourcePath, boolean isJar);
+    boolean isCandidatePath(String resourcePath, boolean isJar);
   };
 
-  public static interface FileNameFilter {
+  public interface FileNameFilter {
-    public boolean isCandidateFile(String fileName, String absFilePath);
+    boolean isCandidateFile(String fileName, String absFilePath);
   };
 
-  public static interface ClassFilter {
+  public interface ClassFilter {
-    public boolean isCandidateClass(Class<?> c);
+    boolean isCandidateClass(Class<?> c);
   };
 
   public ClassFinder() {

hbase-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/Waiter.java

@@ -86,14 +86,14 @@ public final class Waiter {
    * {@link Waiter#waitFor(Configuration, long, long, boolean, Predicate) methods.
    */
   @InterfaceAudience.Private
-  public static interface Predicate<E extends Exception> {
+  public interface Predicate<E extends Exception> {
 
     /**
      * Perform a predicate evaluation.
      * @return the boolean result of the evaluation.
      * @throws Exception thrown if the predicate evaluation could not evaluate.
      */
-    public boolean evaluate() throws E;
+    boolean evaluate() throws E;
 
   }
 

hbase-hadoop-compat/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/ipc/MetricsHBaseServerSource.java

@@ -22,37 +22,37 @@ package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.metrics.BaseSource;
 
 public interface MetricsHBaseServerSource extends BaseSource {
-  public static final String AUTHORIZATION_SUCCESSES_NAME = "authorizationSuccesses";
+  String AUTHORIZATION_SUCCESSES_NAME = "authorizationSuccesses";
-  public static final String AUTHORIZATION_SUCCESSES_DESC =
+  String AUTHORIZATION_SUCCESSES_DESC =
       "Number of authorization successes.";
-  public static final String AUTHORIZATION_FAILURES_NAME = "authorizationFailures";
+  String AUTHORIZATION_FAILURES_NAME = "authorizationFailures";
-  public static final String AUTHORIZATION_FAILURES_DESC =
+  String AUTHORIZATION_FAILURES_DESC =
       "Number of authorization failures.";
-  public static final String AUTHENTICATION_SUCCESSES_NAME = "authenticationSuccesses";
+  String AUTHENTICATION_SUCCESSES_NAME = "authenticationSuccesses";
-  public static final String AUTHENTICATION_SUCCESSES_DESC =
+  String AUTHENTICATION_SUCCESSES_DESC =
       "Number of authentication successes.";
-  public static final String AUTHENTICATION_FAILURES_NAME = "authenticationFailures";
+  String AUTHENTICATION_FAILURES_NAME = "authenticationFailures";
-  public static final String AUTHENTICATION_FAILURES_DESC =
+  String AUTHENTICATION_FAILURES_DESC =
       "Number of authentication failures.";
-  public static final String SENT_BYTES_NAME = "sentBytes";
+  String SENT_BYTES_NAME = "sentBytes";
-  public static final String SENT_BYTES_DESC = "Number of bytes sent.";
+  String SENT_BYTES_DESC = "Number of bytes sent.";
-  public static final String RECEIVED_BYTES_NAME = "receivedBytes";
+  String RECEIVED_BYTES_NAME = "receivedBytes";
-  public static final String RECEIVED_BYTES_DESC = "Number of bytes received.";
+  String RECEIVED_BYTES_DESC = "Number of bytes received.";
-  public static final String QUEUE_CALL_TIME_NAME = "queueCallTime";
+  String QUEUE_CALL_TIME_NAME = "queueCallTime";
-  public static final String QUEUE_CALL_TIME_DESC = "Queue Call Time.";
+  String QUEUE_CALL_TIME_DESC = "Queue Call Time.";
-  public static final String PROCESS_CALL_TIME_NAME = "processCallTime";
+  String PROCESS_CALL_TIME_NAME = "processCallTime";
-  public static final String PROCESS_CALL_TIME_DESC = "Processing call time.";
+  String PROCESS_CALL_TIME_DESC = "Processing call time.";
-  public static final String QUEUE_SIZE_NAME = "queueSize";
+  String QUEUE_SIZE_NAME = "queueSize";
-  public static final String QUEUE_SIZE_DESC = "Number of bytes in the call queues.";
+  String QUEUE_SIZE_DESC = "Number of bytes in the call queues.";
-  public static final String GENERAL_QUEUE_NAME = "numCallsInGeneralQueue";
+  String GENERAL_QUEUE_NAME = "numCallsInGeneralQueue";
-  public static final String GENERAL_QUEUE_DESC = "Number of calls in the general call queue.";
+  String GENERAL_QUEUE_DESC = "Number of calls in the general call queue.";
-  public static final String PRIORITY_QUEUE_NAME = "numCallsInPriorityQueue";
+  String PRIORITY_QUEUE_NAME = "numCallsInPriorityQueue";
-  public static final String REPLICATION_QUEUE_NAME = "numCallsInReplicationQueue";
+  String REPLICATION_QUEUE_NAME = "numCallsInReplicationQueue";
-  public static final String REPLICATION_QUEUE_DESC =
+  String REPLICATION_QUEUE_DESC =
       "Number of calls in the replication call queue.";
-  public static final String PRIORITY_QUEUE_DESC = "Number of calls in the priority call queue.";
+  String PRIORITY_QUEUE_DESC = "Number of calls in the priority call queue.";
-  public static final String NUM_OPEN_CONNECTIONS_NAME = "numOpenConnections";
+  String NUM_OPEN_CONNECTIONS_NAME = "numOpenConnections";
-  public static final String NUM_OPEN_CONNECTIONS_DESC = "Number of open connections.";
+  String NUM_OPEN_CONNECTIONS_DESC = "Number of open connections.";
 
   void authorizationSuccess();
 

hbase-hadoop-compat/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/MetricsMasterSource.java

@@ -28,60 +28,60 @@ public interface MetricsMasterSource extends BaseSource {
   /**
    * The name of the metrics
    */
-  static final String METRICS_NAME = "Server";
+  String METRICS_NAME = "Server";
 
   /**
    * The context metrics will be under.
    */
-  static final String METRICS_CONTEXT = "master";
+  String METRICS_CONTEXT = "master";
 
   /**
    * The name of the metrics context that metrics will be under in jmx
    */
-  static final String METRICS_JMX_CONTEXT = "Master,sub=" + METRICS_NAME;
+  String METRICS_JMX_CONTEXT = "Master,sub=" + METRICS_NAME;
 
   /**
    * Description
    */
-  static final String METRICS_DESCRIPTION = "Metrics about HBase master server";
+  String METRICS_DESCRIPTION = "Metrics about HBase master server";
 
   // Strings used for exporting to metrics system.
-  static final String MASTER_ACTIVE_TIME_NAME = "masterActiveTime";
+  String MASTER_ACTIVE_TIME_NAME = "masterActiveTime";
-  static final String MASTER_START_TIME_NAME = "masterStartTime";
+  String MASTER_START_TIME_NAME = "masterStartTime";
-  static final String AVERAGE_LOAD_NAME = "averageLoad";
+  String AVERAGE_LOAD_NAME = "averageLoad";
-  static final String NUM_REGION_SERVERS_NAME = "numRegionServers";
+  String NUM_REGION_SERVERS_NAME = "numRegionServers";
-  static final String NUM_DEAD_REGION_SERVERS_NAME = "numDeadRegionServers";
+  String NUM_DEAD_REGION_SERVERS_NAME = "numDeadRegionServers";
-  static final String ZOOKEEPER_QUORUM_NAME = "zookeeperQuorum";
+  String ZOOKEEPER_QUORUM_NAME = "zookeeperQuorum";
-  static final String SERVER_NAME_NAME = "serverName";
+  String SERVER_NAME_NAME = "serverName";
-  static final String CLUSTER_ID_NAME = "clusterId";
+  String CLUSTER_ID_NAME = "clusterId";
-  static final String IS_ACTIVE_MASTER_NAME = "isActiveMaster";
+  String IS_ACTIVE_MASTER_NAME = "isActiveMaster";
-  static final String SPLIT_TIME_NAME = "hlogSplitTime";
+  String SPLIT_TIME_NAME = "hlogSplitTime";
-  static final String SPLIT_SIZE_NAME = "hlogSplitSize";
+  String SPLIT_SIZE_NAME = "hlogSplitSize";
-  static final String SNAPSHOT_TIME_NAME = "snapshotTime";
+  String SNAPSHOT_TIME_NAME = "snapshotTime";
-  static final String SNAPSHOT_RESTORE_TIME_NAME = "snapshotRestoreTime";
+  String SNAPSHOT_RESTORE_TIME_NAME = "snapshotRestoreTime";
-  static final String SNAPSHOT_CLONE_TIME_NAME = "snapshotCloneTime";
+  String SNAPSHOT_CLONE_TIME_NAME = "snapshotCloneTime";
-  static final String META_SPLIT_TIME_NAME = "metaHlogSplitTime";
+  String META_SPLIT_TIME_NAME = "metaHlogSplitTime";
-  static final String META_SPLIT_SIZE_NAME = "metaHlogSplitSize";
+  String META_SPLIT_SIZE_NAME = "metaHlogSplitSize";
-  static final String CLUSTER_REQUESTS_NAME = "clusterRequests";
+  String CLUSTER_REQUESTS_NAME = "clusterRequests";
-  static final String RIT_COUNT_NAME = "ritCount";
+  String RIT_COUNT_NAME = "ritCount";
-  static final String RIT_COUNT_OVER_THRESHOLD_NAME = "ritCountOverThreshold";
+  String RIT_COUNT_OVER_THRESHOLD_NAME = "ritCountOverThreshold";
-  static final String RIT_OLDEST_AGE_NAME = "ritOldestAge";
+  String RIT_OLDEST_AGE_NAME = "ritOldestAge";
-  static final String MASTER_ACTIVE_TIME_DESC = "Master Active Time";
+  String MASTER_ACTIVE_TIME_DESC = "Master Active Time";
-  static final String MASTER_START_TIME_DESC = "Master Start Time";
+  String MASTER_START_TIME_DESC = "Master Start Time";
-  static final String AVERAGE_LOAD_DESC = "AverageLoad";
+  String AVERAGE_LOAD_DESC = "AverageLoad";
-  static final String NUMBER_OF_REGION_SERVERS_DESC = "Number of RegionServers";
+  String NUMBER_OF_REGION_SERVERS_DESC = "Number of RegionServers";
-  static final String NUMBER_OF_DEAD_REGION_SERVERS_DESC = "Number of dead RegionServers";
+  String NUMBER_OF_DEAD_REGION_SERVERS_DESC = "Number of dead RegionServers";
-  static final String ZOOKEEPER_QUORUM_DESC = "Zookeeper Quorum";
+  String ZOOKEEPER_QUORUM_DESC = "Zookeeper Quorum";
-  static final String SERVER_NAME_DESC = "Server Name";
+  String SERVER_NAME_DESC = "Server Name";
-  static final String CLUSTER_ID_DESC = "Cluster Id";
+  String CLUSTER_ID_DESC = "Cluster Id";
-  static final String IS_ACTIVE_MASTER_DESC = "Is Active Master";
+  String IS_ACTIVE_MASTER_DESC = "Is Active Master";
-  static final String SPLIT_TIME_DESC = "Time it takes to finish HLog.splitLog()";
+  String SPLIT_TIME_DESC = "Time it takes to finish HLog.splitLog()";
-  static final String SPLIT_SIZE_DESC = "Size of HLog files being split";
+  String SPLIT_SIZE_DESC = "Size of HLog files being split";
-  static final String SNAPSHOT_TIME_DESC = "Time it takes to finish snapshot()";
+  String SNAPSHOT_TIME_DESC = "Time it takes to finish snapshot()";
-  static final String SNAPSHOT_RESTORE_TIME_DESC = "Time it takes to finish restoreSnapshot()";
+  String SNAPSHOT_RESTORE_TIME_DESC = "Time it takes to finish restoreSnapshot()";
-  static final String SNAPSHOT_CLONE_TIME_DESC = "Time it takes to finish cloneSnapshot()";
+  String SNAPSHOT_CLONE_TIME_DESC = "Time it takes to finish cloneSnapshot()";
-  static final String META_SPLIT_TIME_DESC = "Time it takes to finish splitMetaLog()";
+  String META_SPLIT_TIME_DESC = "Time it takes to finish splitMetaLog()";
-  static final String META_SPLIT_SIZE_DESC = "Size of META HLog files being split";
+  String META_SPLIT_SIZE_DESC = "Size of META HLog files being split";
 
   /**
    * Increment the number of requests the cluster has seen.

hbase-hadoop-compat/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/metrics/BaseSource.java

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.metrics;
  */
 public interface BaseSource {
 
-  public static final String HBASE_METRICS_SYSTEM_NAME = "HBase";
+  String HBASE_METRICS_SYSTEM_NAME = "HBase";
 
   /**
    * Clear out the metrics and re-prepare the source.

hbase-hadoop-compat/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/MetricsRegionAggregateSource.java

@@ -29,22 +29,22 @@ public interface MetricsRegionAggregateSource extends BaseSource {
   /**
    * The name of the metrics
    */
-  static final String METRICS_NAME = "Regions";
+  String METRICS_NAME = "Regions";
 
   /**
    * The name of the metrics context that metrics will be under.
    */
-  static final String METRICS_CONTEXT = "regionserver";
+  String METRICS_CONTEXT = "regionserver";
 
   /**
    * Description
    */
-  static final String METRICS_DESCRIPTION = "Metrics about HBase RegionServer regions and tables";
+  String METRICS_DESCRIPTION = "Metrics about HBase RegionServer regions and tables";
 
   /**
    * The name of the metrics context that metrics will be under in jmx
    */
-  static final String METRICS_JMX_CONTEXT = "RegionServer,sub=" + METRICS_NAME;
+  String METRICS_JMX_CONTEXT = "RegionServer,sub=" + METRICS_NAME;
 
   /**
    * Register a MetricsRegionSource as being open.

hbase-hadoop-compat/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/MetricsRegionServerSource.java

@@ -28,22 +28,22 @@ public interface MetricsRegionServerSource extends BaseSource {
   /**
    * The name of the metrics
    */
-  static final String METRICS_NAME = "Server";
+  String METRICS_NAME = "Server";
 
   /**
    * The name of the metrics context that metrics will be under.
    */
-  static final String METRICS_CONTEXT = "regionserver";
+  String METRICS_CONTEXT = "regionserver";
 
   /**
    * Description
    */
-  static final String METRICS_DESCRIPTION = "Metrics about HBase RegionServer";
+  String METRICS_DESCRIPTION = "Metrics about HBase RegionServer";
 
   /**
    * The name of the metrics context that metrics will be under in jmx
    */
-  static final String METRICS_JMX_CONTEXT = "RegionServer,sub=" + METRICS_NAME;
+  String METRICS_JMX_CONTEXT = "RegionServer,sub=" + METRICS_NAME;
 
   /**
    * Update the Put time histogram
@@ -113,103 +113,103 @@ public interface MetricsRegionServerSource extends BaseSource {
   void incrSlowAppend();
 
   // Strings used for exporting to metrics system.
-  static final String REGION_COUNT = "regionCount";
+  String REGION_COUNT = "regionCount";
-  static final String REGION_COUNT_DESC = "Number of regions";
+  String REGION_COUNT_DESC = "Number of regions";
-  static final String STORE_COUNT = "storeCount";
+  String STORE_COUNT = "storeCount";
-  static final String STORE_COUNT_DESC = "Number of Stores";
+  String STORE_COUNT_DESC = "Number of Stores";
-  static final String STOREFILE_COUNT = "storeFileCount";
+  String STOREFILE_COUNT = "storeFileCount";
-  static final String STOREFILE_COUNT_DESC = "Number of Store Files";
+  String STOREFILE_COUNT_DESC = "Number of Store Files";
-  static final String MEMSTORE_SIZE = "memStoreSize";
+  String MEMSTORE_SIZE = "memStoreSize";
-  static final String MEMSTORE_SIZE_DESC = "Size of the memstore";
+  String MEMSTORE_SIZE_DESC = "Size of the memstore";
-  static final String STOREFILE_SIZE = "storeFileSize";
+  String STOREFILE_SIZE = "storeFileSize";
-  static final String STOREFILE_SIZE_DESC = "Size of storefiles being served.";
+  String STOREFILE_SIZE_DESC = "Size of storefiles being served.";
-  static final String TOTAL_REQUEST_COUNT = "totalRequestCount";
+  String TOTAL_REQUEST_COUNT = "totalRequestCount";
-  static final String TOTAL_REQUEST_COUNT_DESC =
+  String TOTAL_REQUEST_COUNT_DESC =
       "Total number of requests this RegionServer has answered.";
-  static final String READ_REQUEST_COUNT = "readRequestCount";
+  String READ_REQUEST_COUNT = "readRequestCount";
-  static final String READ_REQUEST_COUNT_DESC =
+  String READ_REQUEST_COUNT_DESC =
       "Number of read requests this region server has answered.";
-  static final String WRITE_REQUEST_COUNT = "writeRequestCount";
+  String WRITE_REQUEST_COUNT = "writeRequestCount";
-  static final String WRITE_REQUEST_COUNT_DESC =
+  String WRITE_REQUEST_COUNT_DESC =
       "Number of mutation requests this region server has answered.";
-  static final String CHECK_MUTATE_FAILED_COUNT = "checkMutateFailedCount";
+  String CHECK_MUTATE_FAILED_COUNT = "checkMutateFailedCount";
-  static final String CHECK_MUTATE_FAILED_COUNT_DESC =
+  String CHECK_MUTATE_FAILED_COUNT_DESC =
       "Number of Check and Mutate calls that failed the checks.";
-  static final String CHECK_MUTATE_PASSED_COUNT = "checkMutatePassedCount";
+  String CHECK_MUTATE_PASSED_COUNT = "checkMutatePassedCount";
-  static final String CHECK_MUTATE_PASSED_COUNT_DESC =
+  String CHECK_MUTATE_PASSED_COUNT_DESC =
       "Number of Check and Mutate calls that passed the checks.";
-  static final String STOREFILE_INDEX_SIZE = "storeFileIndexSize";
+  String STOREFILE_INDEX_SIZE = "storeFileIndexSize";
-  static final String STOREFILE_INDEX_SIZE_DESC = "Size of indexes in storefiles on disk.";
+  String STOREFILE_INDEX_SIZE_DESC = "Size of indexes in storefiles on disk.";
-  static final String STATIC_INDEX_SIZE = "staticIndexSize";
+  String STATIC_INDEX_SIZE = "staticIndexSize";
-  static final String STATIC_INDEX_SIZE_DESC = "Uncompressed size of the static indexes.";
+  String STATIC_INDEX_SIZE_DESC = "Uncompressed size of the static indexes.";
-  static final String STATIC_BLOOM_SIZE = "staticBloomSize";
+  String STATIC_BLOOM_SIZE = "staticBloomSize";
-  static final String STATIC_BLOOM_SIZE_DESC =
+  String STATIC_BLOOM_SIZE_DESC =
       "Uncompressed size of the static bloom filters.";
-  static final String NUMBER_OF_MUTATIONS_WITHOUT_WAL = "mutationsWithoutWALCount";
+  String NUMBER_OF_MUTATIONS_WITHOUT_WAL = "mutationsWithoutWALCount";
-  static final String NUMBER_OF_MUTATIONS_WITHOUT_WAL_DESC =
+  String NUMBER_OF_MUTATIONS_WITHOUT_WAL_DESC =
       "Number of mutations that have been sent by clients with the write ahead logging turned off.";
-  static final String DATA_SIZE_WITHOUT_WAL = "mutationsWithoutWALSize";
+  String DATA_SIZE_WITHOUT_WAL = "mutationsWithoutWALSize";
-  static final String DATA_SIZE_WITHOUT_WAL_DESC =
+  String DATA_SIZE_WITHOUT_WAL_DESC =
       "Size of data that has been sent by clients with the write ahead logging turned off.";
-  static final String PERCENT_FILES_LOCAL = "percentFilesLocal";
+  String PERCENT_FILES_LOCAL = "percentFilesLocal";
-  static final String PERCENT_FILES_LOCAL_DESC =
+  String PERCENT_FILES_LOCAL_DESC =
       "The percent of HFiles that are stored on the local hdfs data node.";
-  static final String COMPACTION_QUEUE_LENGTH = "compactionQueueLength";
+  String COMPACTION_QUEUE_LENGTH = "compactionQueueLength";
-  static final String COMPACTION_QUEUE_LENGTH_DESC = "Length of the queue for compactions.";
+  String COMPACTION_QUEUE_LENGTH_DESC = "Length of the queue for compactions.";
-  static final String FLUSH_QUEUE_LENGTH = "flushQueueLength";
+  String FLUSH_QUEUE_LENGTH = "flushQueueLength";
-  static final String FLUSH_QUEUE_LENGTH_DESC = "Length of the queue for region flushes";
+  String FLUSH_QUEUE_LENGTH_DESC = "Length of the queue for region flushes";
-  static final String BLOCK_CACHE_FREE_SIZE = "blockCacheFreeSize";
+  String BLOCK_CACHE_FREE_SIZE = "blockCacheFreeSize";
-  static final String BLOCK_CACHE_FREE_DESC =
+  String BLOCK_CACHE_FREE_DESC =
       "Size of the block cache that is not occupied.";
-  static final String BLOCK_CACHE_COUNT = "blockCacheCount";
+  String BLOCK_CACHE_COUNT = "blockCacheCount";
-  static final String BLOCK_CACHE_COUNT_DESC = "Number of block in the block cache.";
+  String BLOCK_CACHE_COUNT_DESC = "Number of block in the block cache.";
-  static final String BLOCK_CACHE_SIZE = "blockCacheSize";
+  String BLOCK_CACHE_SIZE = "blockCacheSize";
-  static final String BLOCK_CACHE_SIZE_DESC = "Size of the block cache.";
+  String BLOCK_CACHE_SIZE_DESC = "Size of the block cache.";
-  static final String BLOCK_CACHE_HIT_COUNT = "blockCacheHitCount";
+  String BLOCK_CACHE_HIT_COUNT = "blockCacheHitCount";
-  static final String BLOCK_CACHE_HIT_COUNT_DESC = "Count of the hit on the block cache.";
+  String BLOCK_CACHE_HIT_COUNT_DESC = "Count of the hit on the block cache.";
-  static final String BLOCK_CACHE_MISS_COUNT = "blockCacheMissCount";
+  String BLOCK_CACHE_MISS_COUNT = "blockCacheMissCount";
-  static final String BLOCK_COUNT_MISS_COUNT_DESC =
+  String BLOCK_COUNT_MISS_COUNT_DESC =
       "Number of requests for a block that missed the block cache.";
-  static final String BLOCK_CACHE_EVICTION_COUNT = "blockCacheEvictionCount";
+  String BLOCK_CACHE_EVICTION_COUNT = "blockCacheEvictionCount";
-  static final String BLOCK_CACHE_EVICTION_COUNT_DESC =
+  String BLOCK_CACHE_EVICTION_COUNT_DESC =
       "Count of the number of blocks evicted from the block cache.";
-  static final String BLOCK_CACHE_HIT_PERCENT = "blockCountHitPercent";
+  String BLOCK_CACHE_HIT_PERCENT = "blockCountHitPercent";
-  static final String BLOCK_CACHE_HIT_PERCENT_DESC =
+  String BLOCK_CACHE_HIT_PERCENT_DESC =
       "Percent of block cache requests that are hits";
-  static final String BLOCK_CACHE_EXPRESS_HIT_PERCENT = "blockCacheExpressHitPercent";
+  String BLOCK_CACHE_EXPRESS_HIT_PERCENT = "blockCacheExpressHitPercent";
-  static final String BLOCK_CACHE_EXPRESS_HIT_PERCENT_DESC =
+  String BLOCK_CACHE_EXPRESS_HIT_PERCENT_DESC =
       "The percent of the time that requests with the cache turned on hit the cache.";
-  static final String RS_START_TIME_NAME = "regionServerStartTime";
+  String RS_START_TIME_NAME = "regionServerStartTime";
-  static final String ZOOKEEPER_QUORUM_NAME = "zookeeperQuorum";
+  String ZOOKEEPER_QUORUM_NAME = "zookeeperQuorum";
-  static final String SERVER_NAME_NAME = "serverName";
+  String SERVER_NAME_NAME = "serverName";
-  static final String CLUSTER_ID_NAME = "clusterId";
+  String CLUSTER_ID_NAME = "clusterId";
-  static final String RS_START_TIME_DESC = "RegionServer Start Time";
+  String RS_START_TIME_DESC = "RegionServer Start Time";
-  static final String ZOOKEEPER_QUORUM_DESC = "Zookeeper Quorum";
+  String ZOOKEEPER_QUORUM_DESC = "Zookeeper Quorum";
-  static final String SERVER_NAME_DESC = "Server Name";
+  String SERVER_NAME_DESC = "Server Name";
-  static final String CLUSTER_ID_DESC = "Cluster Id";
+  String CLUSTER_ID_DESC = "Cluster Id";
-  static final String UPDATES_BLOCKED_TIME = "updatesBlockedTime";
+  String UPDATES_BLOCKED_TIME = "updatesBlockedTime";
-  static final String UPDATES_BLOCKED_DESC =
+  String UPDATES_BLOCKED_DESC =
       "Number of MS updates have been blocked so that the memstore can be flushed.";
-  static final String DELETE_KEY = "delete";
+  String DELETE_KEY = "delete";
-  static final String GET_KEY = "get";
+  String GET_KEY = "get";
-  static final String INCREMENT_KEY = "increment";
+  String INCREMENT_KEY = "increment";
-  static final String MUTATE_KEY = "mutate";
+  String MUTATE_KEY = "mutate";
-  static final String APPEND_KEY = "append";
+  String APPEND_KEY = "append";
-  static final String REPLAY_KEY = "replay";
+  String REPLAY_KEY = "replay";
-  static final String SCAN_NEXT_KEY = "scanNext";
+  String SCAN_NEXT_KEY = "scanNext";
-  static final String SLOW_MUTATE_KEY = "slowPutCount";
+  String SLOW_MUTATE_KEY = "slowPutCount";
-  static final String SLOW_GET_KEY = "slowGetCount";
+  String SLOW_GET_KEY = "slowGetCount";
-  static final String SLOW_DELETE_KEY = "slowDeleteCount";
+  String SLOW_DELETE_KEY = "slowDeleteCount";
-  static final String SLOW_INCREMENT_KEY = "slowIncrementCount";
+  String SLOW_INCREMENT_KEY = "slowIncrementCount";
-  static final String SLOW_APPEND_KEY = "slowAppendCount";
+  String SLOW_APPEND_KEY = "slowAppendCount";
-  static final String SLOW_MUTATE_DESC =
+  String SLOW_MUTATE_DESC =
       "The number of Multis that took over 1000ms to complete";
-  static final String SLOW_DELETE_DESC =
+  String SLOW_DELETE_DESC =
       "The number of Deletes that took over 1000ms to complete";
-  static final String SLOW_GET_DESC = "The number of Gets that took over 1000ms to complete";
+  String SLOW_GET_DESC = "The number of Gets that took over 1000ms to complete";
-  static final String SLOW_INCREMENT_DESC =
+  String SLOW_INCREMENT_DESC =
       "The number of Increments that took over 1000ms to complete";
-  static final String SLOW_APPEND_DESC =
+  String SLOW_APPEND_DESC =
       "The number of Appends that took over 1000ms to complete";
 
 

hbase-hadoop-compat/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/MetricsRegionServerWrapper.java

@@ -27,35 +27,35 @@ public interface MetricsRegionServerWrapper {
   /**
    * Get ServerName
    */
-  public String getServerName();
+  String getServerName();
 
   /**
    * Get the Cluster ID
    *
    * @return Cluster ID
    */
-  public String getClusterId();
+  String getClusterId();
 
   /**
    * Get the Zookeeper Quorum Info
    *
    * @return Zookeeper Quorum Info
    */
-  public String getZookeeperQuorum();
+  String getZookeeperQuorum();
 
   /**
    * Get the co-processors
    *
    * @return Co-processors
    */
-  public String getCoprocessors();
+  String getCoprocessors();
 
   /**
    * Get HRegionServer start time
    *
    * @return Start time of RegionServer in milliseconds
    */
-  public long getStartCode();
+  long getStartCode();
 
   /**
    * The number of online regions

hbase-hadoop-compat/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/MetricsRegionSource.java

@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver;
  */
 public interface MetricsRegionSource extends Comparable<MetricsRegionSource> {
 
-  public static final String OPS_SAMPLE_NAME = "ops";
+  String OPS_SAMPLE_NAME = "ops";
-  public static final String SIZE_VALUE_NAME = "size";
+  String SIZE_VALUE_NAME = "size";
 
   /**
    * Close the region's metrics as this region is closing.

hbase-hadoop-compat/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/wal/MetricsEditsReplaySource.java

@@ -29,30 +29,30 @@ public interface MetricsEditsReplaySource extends BaseSource {
   /**
    * The name of the metrics
    */
-  static final String METRICS_NAME = "replay";
+  String METRICS_NAME = "replay";
 
   /**
    * The name of the metrics context that metrics will be under.
    */
-  static final String METRICS_CONTEXT = "regionserver";
+  String METRICS_CONTEXT = "regionserver";
 
   /**
    * Description
    */
-  static final String METRICS_DESCRIPTION = "Metrics about HBase RegionServer HLog Edits Replay";
+  String METRICS_DESCRIPTION = "Metrics about HBase RegionServer HLog Edits Replay";
 
   /**
    * The name of the metrics context that metrics will be under in jmx
    */
-  static final String METRICS_JMX_CONTEXT = "RegionServer,sub=" + METRICS_NAME;
+  String METRICS_JMX_CONTEXT = "RegionServer,sub=" + METRICS_NAME;
 
 
-  static final String REPLAY_TIME_NAME = "replayTime";
+  String REPLAY_TIME_NAME = "replayTime";
-  static final String REPLAY_TIME_DESC = "Time an replay operation took.";
+  String REPLAY_TIME_DESC = "Time an replay operation took.";
-  static final String REPLAY_BATCH_SIZE_NAME = "replayBatchSize";
+  String REPLAY_BATCH_SIZE_NAME = "replayBatchSize";
-  static final String REPLAY_BATCH_SIZE_DESC = "Number of changes in each replay batch.";
+  String REPLAY_BATCH_SIZE_DESC = "Number of changes in each replay batch.";
-  static final String REPLAY_DATA_SIZE_NAME = "replayDataSize";
+  String REPLAY_DATA_SIZE_NAME = "replayDataSize";
-  static final String REPLAY_DATA_SIZE_DESC = "Size (in bytes) of the data of each replay.";
+  String REPLAY_DATA_SIZE_DESC = "Size (in bytes) of the data of each replay.";
 
   /**
    * Add the time a replay command took

hbase-hadoop-compat/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/wal/MetricsWALSource.java

@@ -29,34 +29,34 @@ public interface MetricsWALSource extends BaseSource {
   /**
    * The name of the metrics
    */
-  static final String METRICS_NAME = "WAL";
+  String METRICS_NAME = "WAL";
 
   /**
    * The name of the metrics context that metrics will be under.
    */
-  static final String METRICS_CONTEXT = "regionserver";
+  String METRICS_CONTEXT = "regionserver";
 
   /**
    * Description
    */
-  static final String METRICS_DESCRIPTION = "Metrics about HBase RegionServer HLog";
+  String METRICS_DESCRIPTION = "Metrics about HBase RegionServer HLog";
 
   /**
    * The name of the metrics context that metrics will be under in jmx
    */
-  static final String METRICS_JMX_CONTEXT = "RegionServer,sub=" + METRICS_NAME;
+  String METRICS_JMX_CONTEXT = "RegionServer,sub=" + METRICS_NAME;
 
 
-  static final String APPEND_TIME = "appendTime";
+  String APPEND_TIME = "appendTime";
-  static final String APPEND_TIME_DESC = "Time an append to the log took.";
+  String APPEND_TIME_DESC = "Time an append to the log took.";
-  static final String APPEND_COUNT = "appendCount";
+  String APPEND_COUNT = "appendCount";
-  static final String APPEND_COUNT_DESC = "Number of appends to the write ahead log.";
+  String APPEND_COUNT_DESC = "Number of appends to the write ahead log.";
-  static final String APPEND_SIZE = "appendSize";
+  String APPEND_SIZE = "appendSize";
-  static final String APPEND_SIZE_DESC = "Size (in bytes) of the data appended to the HLog.";
+  String APPEND_SIZE_DESC = "Size (in bytes) of the data appended to the HLog.";
-  static final String SLOW_APPEND_COUNT = "slowAppendCount";
+  String SLOW_APPEND_COUNT = "slowAppendCount";
-  static final String SLOW_APPEND_COUNT_DESC = "Number of appends that were slow.";
+  String SLOW_APPEND_COUNT_DESC = "Number of appends that were slow.";
-  static final String SYNC_TIME = "syncTime";
+  String SYNC_TIME = "syncTime";
-  static final String SYNC_TIME_DESC = "The time it took to sync the HLog to HDFS.";
+  String SYNC_TIME_DESC = "The time it took to sync the HLog to HDFS.";
 
   /**
    * Add the append size.

hbase-hadoop-compat/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/MetricsReplicationSource.java

@@ -28,21 +28,21 @@ public interface MetricsReplicationSource extends BaseSource {
   /**
    * The name of the metrics
    */
-  static final String METRICS_NAME = "Replication";
+  String METRICS_NAME = "Replication";
 
   /**
    * The name of the metrics context that metrics will be under.
    */
-  static final String METRICS_CONTEXT = "regionserver";
+  String METRICS_CONTEXT = "regionserver";
 
   /**
    * The name of the metrics context that metrics will be under.
    */
-  static final String METRICS_JMX_CONTEXT = "RegionServer,sub=" + METRICS_NAME;
+  String METRICS_JMX_CONTEXT = "RegionServer,sub=" + METRICS_NAME;
 
   /**
    * A description.
    */
-  static final String METRICS_DESCRIPTION = "Metrics about HBase replication";
+  String METRICS_DESCRIPTION = "Metrics about HBase replication";
 
 }

hbase-hadoop-compat/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/MetricsRESTSource.java

@@ -25,27 +25,27 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.metrics.BaseSource;
  */
 public interface MetricsRESTSource extends BaseSource {
 
-  public static String METRICS_NAME = "REST";
+  String METRICS_NAME = "REST";
 
-  public static String CONTEXT = "rest";
+  String CONTEXT = "rest";
 
-  public static String JMX_CONTEXT = "REST";
+  String JMX_CONTEXT = "REST";
 
-  public static String METRICS_DESCRIPTION = "Metrics about the HBase REST server";
+  String METRICS_DESCRIPTION = "Metrics about the HBase REST server";
 
-  static String REQUEST_KEY = "requests";
+  String REQUEST_KEY = "requests";
 
-  static String SUCCESSFUL_GET_KEY = "successfulGet";
+  String SUCCESSFUL_GET_KEY = "successfulGet";
 
-  static String SUCCESSFUL_PUT_KEY = "successfulPut";
+  String SUCCESSFUL_PUT_KEY = "successfulPut";
 
-  static String SUCCESSFUL_DELETE_KEY = "successfulDelete";
+  String SUCCESSFUL_DELETE_KEY = "successfulDelete";
 
-  static String FAILED_GET_KEY = "failedGet";
+  String FAILED_GET_KEY = "failedGet";
 
-  static String FAILED_PUT_KEY = "failedPut";
+  String FAILED_PUT_KEY = "failedPut";
 
-  static String FAILED_DELETE_KEY = "failedDelete";
+  String FAILED_DELETE_KEY = "failedDelete";
 
   /**
    * Increment the number of requests

hbase-hadoop-compat/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/thrift/MetricsThriftServerSource.java

@@ -25,12 +25,12 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.metrics.BaseSource;
  */
 public interface MetricsThriftServerSource extends BaseSource {
 
-  static final String BATCH_GET_KEY = "batchGet";
+  String BATCH_GET_KEY = "batchGet";
-  static final String BATCH_MUTATE_KEY = "batchMutate";
+  String BATCH_MUTATE_KEY = "batchMutate";
-  static final String TIME_IN_QUEUE_KEY = "timeInQueue";
+  String TIME_IN_QUEUE_KEY = "timeInQueue";
-  static final String THRIFT_CALL_KEY = "thriftCall";
+  String THRIFT_CALL_KEY = "thriftCall";
-  static final String SLOW_THRIFT_CALL_KEY = "slowThriftCall";
+  String SLOW_THRIFT_CALL_KEY = "slowThriftCall";
-  static final String CALL_QUEUE_LEN_KEY = "callQueueLen";
+  String CALL_QUEUE_LEN_KEY = "callQueueLen";
 
   /**
    * Add how long an operation was in the queue.

hbase-hadoop-compat/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/thrift/MetricsThriftServerSourceFactory.java

@@ -21,12 +21,12 @@ package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.thrift;
 /** Factory that will be used to create metrics sources for the two diffent types of thrift servers. */
 public interface MetricsThriftServerSourceFactory {
 
-  static final String METRICS_NAME = "Thrift";
+  String METRICS_NAME = "Thrift";
-  static final String METRICS_DESCRIPTION = "Thrift Server Metrics";
+  String METRICS_DESCRIPTION = "Thrift Server Metrics";
-  static final String THRIFT_ONE_METRICS_CONTEXT = "thrift-one";
+  String THRIFT_ONE_METRICS_CONTEXT = "thrift-one";
-  static final String THRIFT_ONE_JMX_CONTEXT = "Thrift,sub=ThriftOne";
+  String THRIFT_ONE_JMX_CONTEXT = "Thrift,sub=ThriftOne";
-  static final String THRIFT_TWO_METRICS_CONTEXT = "thrift-two";
+  String THRIFT_TWO_METRICS_CONTEXT = "thrift-two";
-  static final String THRIFT_TWO_JMX_CONTEXT = "Thrift,sub=ThriftTwo";
+  String THRIFT_TWO_JMX_CONTEXT = "Thrift,sub=ThriftTwo";
 
   /** Create a Source for a thrift one server */
   MetricsThriftServerSource createThriftOneSource();

hbase-hadoop-compat/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/metrics2/MetricHistogram.java

@@ -25,14 +25,14 @@ package org.apache.hadoop.metrics2;
 public interface MetricHistogram {
 
   //Strings used to create metrics names.
-  static final String NUM_OPS_METRIC_NAME = "_num_ops";
+  String NUM_OPS_METRIC_NAME = "_num_ops";
-  static final String MIN_METRIC_NAME = "_min";
+  String MIN_METRIC_NAME = "_min";
-  static final String MAX_METRIC_NAME = "_max";
+  String MAX_METRIC_NAME = "_max";
-  static final String MEAN_METRIC_NAME = "_mean";
+  String MEAN_METRIC_NAME = "_mean";
-  static final String MEDIAN_METRIC_NAME = "_median";
+  String MEDIAN_METRIC_NAME = "_median";
-  static final String SEVENTY_FIFTH_PERCENTILE_METRIC_NAME = "_75th_percentile";
+  String SEVENTY_FIFTH_PERCENTILE_METRIC_NAME = "_75th_percentile";
-  static final String NINETY_FIFTH_PERCENTILE_METRIC_NAME = "_95th_percentile";
+  String NINETY_FIFTH_PERCENTILE_METRIC_NAME = "_95th_percentile";
-  static final String NINETY_NINETH_PERCENTILE_METRIC_NAME = "_99th_percentile";
+  String NINETY_NINETH_PERCENTILE_METRIC_NAME = "_99th_percentile";
 
   /**
    * Add a single value to a histogram's stream of values.

hbase-hadoop-compat/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HadoopShims.java

@@ -32,6 +32,6 @@ public interface HadoopShims {
    * TaskAttemptId.forName()
    * @return a concrete TaskAttemptContext instance of o.a.h.mapreduce.TaskAttemptContext
    */
-  public <T,J> T createTestTaskAttemptContext(final J job, final String taskId);
+  <T,J> T createTestTaskAttemptContext(final J job, final String taskId);
 
 }

hbase-hadoop-compat/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/test/MetricsAssertHelper.java

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ public interface MetricsAssertHelper {
    * Init helper.  This method will make sure that the metrics system is set
    * up for tests.
    */
-  public void init();
+  void init();
 
   /**
    * Assert that a tag exists and has a given value.
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ public interface MetricsAssertHelper {
    * @param source   The BaseSource{@link BaseSource} that will provide the tags,
    *                 gauges, and counters.
    */
-  public void assertTag(String name, String expected, BaseSource source);
+  void assertTag(String name, String expected, BaseSource source);
 
   /**
    * Assert that a gauge exists and that it's value is equal to the expected value.
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ public interface MetricsAssertHelper {
    * @param source   The BaseSource{@link BaseSource} that will provide the tags,
    *                 gauges, and counters.
    */
-  public void assertGauge(String name, long expected, BaseSource source);
+  void assertGauge(String name, long expected, BaseSource source);
 
   /**
    * Assert that a gauge exists and it's value is greater than a given value
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ public interface MetricsAssertHelper {
    * @param source   The BaseSource{@link BaseSource} that will provide the tags,
    *                 gauges, and counters.
    */
-  public void assertGaugeGt(String name, long expected, BaseSource source);
+  void assertGaugeGt(String name, long expected, BaseSource source);
 
   /**
    * Assert that a gauge exists and it's value is less than a given value
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ public interface MetricsAssertHelper {
    * @param source   The BaseSource{@link BaseSource} that will provide the tags,
    *                 gauges, and counters.
    */
-  public void assertGaugeLt(String name, long expected, BaseSource source);
+  void assertGaugeLt(String name, long expected, BaseSource source);
 
   /**
    * Assert that a gauge exists and that it's value is equal to the expected value.
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ public interface MetricsAssertHelper {
    * @param source   The BaseSource{@link BaseSource} that will provide the tags,
    *                 gauges, and counters.
    */
-  public void assertGauge(String name, double expected, BaseSource source);
+  void assertGauge(String name, double expected, BaseSource source);
 
   /**
    * Assert that a gauge exists and it's value is greater than a given value
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ public interface MetricsAssertHelper {
    * @param source   The BaseSource{@link BaseSource} that will provide the tags,
    *                 gauges, and counters.
    */
-  public void assertGaugeGt(String name, double expected, BaseSource source);
+  void assertGaugeGt(String name, double expected, BaseSource source);
 
   /**
    * Assert that a gauge exists and it's value is less than a given value
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ public interface MetricsAssertHelper {
    * @param source   The BaseSource{@link BaseSource} that will provide the tags,
    *                 gauges, and counters.
    */
-  public void assertGaugeLt(String name, double expected, BaseSource source);
+  void assertGaugeLt(String name, double expected, BaseSource source);
 
   /**
    * Assert that a counter exists and that it's value is equal to the expected value.
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ public interface MetricsAssertHelper {
    * @param source   The BaseSource{@link BaseSource} that will provide the tags,
    *                 gauges, and counters.
    */
-  public void assertCounter(String name, long expected, BaseSource source);
+  void assertCounter(String name, long expected, BaseSource source);
 
   /**
    * Assert that a counter exists and that it's value is greater than the given value.
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ public interface MetricsAssertHelper {
    * @param source   The BaseSource{@link BaseSource} that will provide the tags,
    *                 gauges, and counters.
    */
-  public void assertCounterGt(String name, long expected, BaseSource source);
+  void assertCounterGt(String name, long expected, BaseSource source);
 
   /**
    * Assert that a counter exists and that it's value is less than the given value.
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ public interface MetricsAssertHelper {
    * @param source   The BaseSource{@link BaseSource} that will provide the tags,
    *                 gauges, and counters.
    */
-  public void assertCounterLt(String name, long expected, BaseSource source);
+  void assertCounterLt(String name, long expected, BaseSource source);
 
   /**
    * Get the value of a counter.
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ public interface MetricsAssertHelper {
    *               gauges, and counters.
    * @return long value of the counter.
    */
-  public long getCounter(String name, BaseSource source);
+  long getCounter(String name, BaseSource source);
 
   /**
    * Get the value of a gauge as a double.
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ public interface MetricsAssertHelper {
    *               gauges, and counters.
    * @return double value of the gauge.
    */
-  public double getGaugeDouble(String name, BaseSource source);
+  double getGaugeDouble(String name, BaseSource source);
 
   /**
    * Get the value of a gauge as a long.
@@ -157,5 +157,5 @@ public interface MetricsAssertHelper {
    *               gauges, and counters.
    * @return long value of the gauge.
    */
-  public long getGaugeLong(String name, BaseSource source);
+  long getGaugeLong(String name, BaseSource source);
 }

hbase-prefix-tree/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/codec/prefixtree/builder/TestTokenizerData.java

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ public interface TestTokenizerData {
   List<byte[]> getInputs();
   List<byte[]> getOutputs();
 
-  public static class InMemory {
+  class InMemory {
     public Collection<Object[]> getAllAsObjectArray() {
       List<Object[]> all = Lists.newArrayList();
       all.add(new Object[] { new TestTokenizerDataBasic() });

hbase-prefix-tree/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/codec/prefixtree/column/TestColumnData.java

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ public interface TestColumnData {
   List<ByteRange> getInputs();
   List<ByteRange> getOutputs();
 
-  public static class InMemory {
+  class InMemory {
     public Collection<Object[]> getAllAsObjectArray() {
       List<Object[]> all = Lists.newArrayList();
       all.add(new Object[] { new TestColumnDataSimple() });

hbase-prefix-tree/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/codec/prefixtree/row/TestRowData.java

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ public interface TestRowData {
 
   void individualSearcherAssertions(CellSearcher searcher);
 
-  public static class InMemory {
+  class InMemory {
 
     /*
      * The following are different styles of data that the codec may encounter.  Having these small

hbase-prefix-tree/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/codec/prefixtree/timestamp/TestTimestampData.java

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ public interface TestTimestampData {
   long getMinimum();
   List<Long> getOutputs();
 
-  public static class InMemory {
+  class InMemory {
     public Collection<Object[]> getAllAsObjectArray() {
       List<Object[]> all = Lists.newArrayList();
       all.add(new Object[] { new TestTimestampDataBasic() });

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/InterProcessLock.java

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ public interface InterProcessLock {
    * @throws InterruptedException If current thread is interrupted while
    *                              waiting for the lock
    */
-  public void acquire() throws IOException, InterruptedException;
+  void acquire() throws IOException, InterruptedException;
 
   /**
    * Acquire the lock within a wait time.
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ public interface InterProcessLock {
    * @throws InterruptedException If the thread is interrupted while waiting to
    *                              acquire the lock
    */
-  public boolean tryAcquire(long timeoutMs)
+  boolean tryAcquire(long timeoutMs)
   throws IOException, InterruptedException;
 
   /**
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ public interface InterProcessLock {
    * @throws InterruptedException If the thread is interrupted while releasing
    *                              the lock
    */
-  public void release() throws IOException, InterruptedException;
+  void release() throws IOException, InterruptedException;
 
   /**
    * If supported, attempts to reap all the locks of this type by forcefully
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ public interface InterProcessLock {
    * lock holder is still alive.
    * @throws IOException If there is an unrecoverable error reaping the locks
    */
-  public void reapExpiredLocks(long expireTimeoutMs) throws IOException;
+  void reapExpiredLocks(long expireTimeoutMs) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * If supported, attempts to reap all the locks of this type by forcefully
@@ -80,12 +80,12 @@ public interface InterProcessLock {
    * with timeout=0.
    * @throws IOException If there is an unrecoverable error reaping the locks
    */
-  public void reapAllLocks() throws IOException;
+  void reapAllLocks() throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * An interface for objects that process lock metadata.
    */
-  public static interface MetadataHandler {
+  interface MetadataHandler {
 
     /**
      * Called after lock metadata is successfully read from a distributed
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ public interface InterProcessLock {
      * printing the metadata in a humanly-readable format.
      * @param metadata The metadata
      */
-    public void handleMetadata(byte[] metadata);
+    void handleMetadata(byte[] metadata);
   }
 
   /**
@@ -101,5 +101,5 @@ public interface InterProcessLock {
    * {@link MetadataHandler}.
    * @throws InterruptedException If there is an unrecoverable error
    */
-  public void visitLocks(MetadataHandler handler) throws IOException;
+  void visitLocks(MetadataHandler handler) throws IOException;
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/InterProcessReadWriteLock.java

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ public interface InterProcessReadWriteLock {
    *                 which the lock was acquired).
    * @return An instantiated InterProcessLock instance
    */
-  public InterProcessLock readLock(byte[] metadata);
+  InterProcessLock readLock(byte[] metadata);
 
   /**
    * Obtain a write lock containing given metadata.
@@ -43,5 +43,5 @@ public interface InterProcessReadWriteLock {
    *                 which the lock was acquired).
    * @return An instantiated InterProcessLock instance
    */
-  public InterProcessLock writeLock(byte[] metadata);
+  InterProcessLock writeLock(byte[] metadata);
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/TableDescriptors.java

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ public interface TableDescriptors {
    * @return HTableDescriptor for tablename
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public HTableDescriptor get(final String tablename)
+  HTableDescriptor get(final String tablename)
   throws IOException;
 
   /**
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ public interface TableDescriptors {
    * @return HTableDescriptor for tablename
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public HTableDescriptor get(final byte[] tablename)
+  HTableDescriptor get(final byte[] tablename)
   throws IOException;
 
   /**
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ public interface TableDescriptors {
    * @return Map of all descriptors.
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public Map<String, HTableDescriptor> getAll()
+  Map<String, HTableDescriptor> getAll()
   throws IOException;
 
   /**
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ public interface TableDescriptors {
    * @param htd Descriptor to set into TableDescriptors
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public void add(final HTableDescriptor htd)
+  void add(final HTableDescriptor htd)
   throws IOException;
 
   /**
@@ -68,6 +68,6 @@ public interface TableDescriptors {
    * @return Instance of table descriptor or null if none found.
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public HTableDescriptor remove(final String tablename)
+  HTableDescriptor remove(final String tablename)
   throws IOException;
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/constraint/Constraint.java

@@ -76,6 +76,6 @@ public interface Constraint extends Configurable {
    * @throws org.apache.hadoop.hbase.exceptions.ConstraintException when the {@link Put} does not match the
    *         constraint.
    */
-  public void check(Put p) throws ConstraintException;
+  void check(Put p) throws ConstraintException;
 
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/coprocessor/CoprocessorService.java

@@ -29,5 +29,5 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability;
 @InterfaceAudience.Public
 @InterfaceStability.Evolving
 public interface CoprocessorService {
-  public Service getService();
+  Service getService();
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/coprocessor/RegionCoprocessorEnvironment.java

@@ -31,12 +31,12 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.RegionServerServices;
 @InterfaceStability.Evolving
 public interface RegionCoprocessorEnvironment extends CoprocessorEnvironment {
   /** @return the region associated with this coprocessor */
-  public HRegion getRegion();
+  HRegion getRegion();
 
   /** @return reference to the region server services */
-  public RegionServerServices getRegionServerServices();
+  RegionServerServices getRegionServerServices();
 
   /** @return shared data between all instances of this coprocessor */
-  public ConcurrentMap<String, Object> getSharedData();
+  ConcurrentMap<String, Object> getSharedData();
 
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/coprocessor/WALCoprocessorEnvironment.java

@@ -28,5 +28,5 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.wal.HLog;
 @InterfaceStability.Evolving
 public interface WALCoprocessorEnvironment extends CoprocessorEnvironment {
   /** @return reference to the region server services */
-  public HLog getWAL();
+  HLog getWAL();
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/errorhandling/ForeignExceptionListener.java

@@ -36,5 +36,5 @@ public interface ForeignExceptionListener {
    * Implementers must ensure that this method is thread-safe.
    * @param e exception causing the error. Implementations must accept and handle null here.
    */
-  public void receive(ForeignException e);
+  void receive(ForeignException e);
-}
+}

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/errorhandling/ForeignExceptionSnare.java

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ public interface ForeignExceptionSnare {
    * @throws ForeignException
    *           all exceptions from remote sources are procedure exceptions
    */
-  public void rethrowException() throws ForeignException;
+  void rethrowException() throws ForeignException;
 
   /**
    * Non-exceptional form of {@link #rethrowException()}. Checks to see if any
@@ -56,12 +56,12 @@ public interface ForeignExceptionSnare {
    *
    * @return <tt>true</tt> if there has been an error,<tt>false</tt> otherwise
    */
-  public boolean hasException();
+  boolean hasException();
 
   /**
    * Get the value of the captured exception.
    *
    * @return the captured foreign exception or null if no exception captured.
    */
-  public ForeignException getException();
+  ForeignException getException();
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/executor/EventHandler.java

@@ -87,12 +87,12 @@ public abstract class EventHandler implements Runnable, Comparable<Runnable> {
      * Called before any event is processed
      * @param event The event handler whose process method is about to be called.
      */
-    public void beforeProcess(EventHandler event);
+    void beforeProcess(EventHandler event);
     /**
      * Called after any event is processed
      * @param event The event handler whose process method is about to be called.
      */
-    public void afterProcess(EventHandler event);
+    void afterProcess(EventHandler event);
   }
 
   /**

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/fs/HFileSystem.java

@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ public class HFileSystem extends FilterFileSystem {
   /**
    * Interface to implement to add a specific reordering logic in hdfs.
    */
-  static interface ReorderBlocks {
+  interface ReorderBlocks {
     /**
      *
      * @param conf - the conf to use
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ public class HFileSystem extends FilterFileSystem {
      * @param src - the file name currently read
      * @throws IOException - if something went wrong
      */
-    public void reorderBlocks(Configuration conf, LocatedBlocks lbs, String src) throws IOException;
+    void reorderBlocks(Configuration conf, LocatedBlocks lbs, String src) throws IOException;
   }
 
   /**

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/WritableWithSize.java

@@ -34,5 +34,5 @@ public interface WritableWithSize {
    *
    * @return the size of the writable
    */
-  public long getWritableSize();
+  long getWritableSize();
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/hfile/BlockCache.java

@@ -36,14 +36,14 @@ public interface BlockCache {
    * @param buf The block contents wrapped in a ByteBuffer.
    * @param inMemory Whether block should be treated as in-memory
    */
-  public void cacheBlock(BlockCacheKey cacheKey, Cacheable buf, boolean inMemory);
+  void cacheBlock(BlockCacheKey cacheKey, Cacheable buf, boolean inMemory);
 
   /**
    * Add block to cache (defaults to not in-memory).
    * @param cacheKey The block's cache key.
    * @param buf The object to cache.
    */
-  public void cacheBlock(BlockCacheKey cacheKey, Cacheable buf);
+  void cacheBlock(BlockCacheKey cacheKey, Cacheable buf);
 
   /**
    * Fetch block from cache.
@@ -54,62 +54,62 @@ public interface BlockCache {
    * @return Block or null if block is not in 2 cache.
    * @see HFileReaderV2#readBlock(long, long, boolean, boolean, boolean, BlockType)
    */
-  public Cacheable getBlock(BlockCacheKey cacheKey, boolean caching, boolean repeat);
+  Cacheable getBlock(BlockCacheKey cacheKey, boolean caching, boolean repeat);
 
   /**
    * Evict block from cache.
    * @param cacheKey Block to evict
    * @return true if block existed and was evicted, false if not
    */
-  public boolean evictBlock(BlockCacheKey cacheKey);
+  boolean evictBlock(BlockCacheKey cacheKey);
 
   /**
    * Evicts all blocks for the given HFile.
    *
    * @return the number of blocks evicted
    */
-  public int evictBlocksByHfileName(String hfileName);
+  int evictBlocksByHfileName(String hfileName);
 
   /**
    * Get the statistics for this block cache.
    * @return Stats
    */
-  public CacheStats getStats();
+  CacheStats getStats();
 
   /**
    * Shutdown the cache.
    */
-  public void shutdown();
+  void shutdown();
 
   /**
    * Returns the total size of the block cache, in bytes.
    * @return size of cache, in bytes
    */
-  public long size();
+  long size();
 
   /**
    * Returns the free size of the block cache, in bytes.
    * @return free space in cache, in bytes
    */
-  public long getFreeSize();
+  long getFreeSize();
 
   /**
    * Returns the occupied size of the block cache, in bytes.
    * @return occupied space in cache, in bytes
    */
-  public long getCurrentSize();
+  long getCurrentSize();
 
   /**
    * Returns the number of evictions that have occurred.
    * @return number of evictions
    */
-  public long getEvictedCount();
+  long getEvictedCount();
 
   /**
    * Returns the number of blocks currently cached in the block cache.
    * @return number of blocks in the cache
    */
-  public long getBlockCount();
+  long getBlockCount();
 
   /**
    * Performs a BlockCache summary and returns a List of BlockCacheColumnFamilySummary objects.
@@ -123,5 +123,5 @@ public interface BlockCache {
    * @return List of BlockCacheColumnFamilySummary
    * @throws IOException exception
    */
-  public List<BlockCacheColumnFamilySummary> getBlockCacheColumnFamilySummaries(Configuration conf) throws IOException;
+  List<BlockCacheColumnFamilySummary> getBlockCacheColumnFamilySummaries(Configuration conf) throws IOException;
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/hfile/Cacheable.java

@@ -42,23 +42,23 @@ public interface Cacheable extends HeapSize {
    * @return int length in bytes of the serialized form.
    */
 
-  public int getSerializedLength();
+  int getSerializedLength();
 
   /**
    * Serializes its data into destination.
    */
-  public void serialize(ByteBuffer destination);
+  void serialize(ByteBuffer destination);
 
   /**
    * Returns CacheableDeserializer instance which reconstructs original object from ByteBuffer.
    *
    * @return CacheableDeserialzer instance.
    */
-  public CacheableDeserializer<Cacheable> getDeserializer();
+  CacheableDeserializer<Cacheable> getDeserializer();
 
   /**
    * @return the block type of this cached HFile block
    */
-  public BlockType getBlockType();
+  BlockType getBlockType();
 
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/hfile/CacheableDeserializer.java

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ public interface CacheableDeserializer<T extends Cacheable> {
    *
    * @return T the deserialized object.
    */
-  public T deserialize(ByteBuffer b) throws IOException;
+  T deserialize(ByteBuffer b) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * 
@@ -43,12 +43,12 @@ public interface CacheableDeserializer<T extends Cacheable> {
    * @return T the deserialized object.
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public T deserialize(ByteBuffer b, boolean reuse) throws IOException;
+  T deserialize(ByteBuffer b, boolean reuse) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Get the identifier of this deserialiser. Identifier is unique for each
    * deserializer and generated by {@link CacheableDeserializerIdManager}
    * @return identifier number of this cacheable deserializer
    */
-  public int getDeserialiserIdentifier();
+  int getDeserialiserIdentifier();
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/hfile/HFileDataBlockEncoder.java

@@ -49,8 +49,9 @@ public interface HFileDataBlockEncoder {
    *          generated).
    * @return non null block which is coded according to the settings.
    */
-  public HFileBlock diskToCacheFormat(HFileBlock block,
+  HFileBlock diskToCacheFormat(
-      boolean isCompaction);
+    HFileBlock block, boolean isCompaction
+  );
 
   /**
    * Should be called before an encoded or unencoded data block is written to
@@ -60,37 +61,39 @@ public interface HFileDataBlockEncoder {
    * @param blockType block type
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public void beforeWriteToDisk(
+  void beforeWriteToDisk(
-      ByteBuffer in, boolean includesMemstoreTS,
+    ByteBuffer in,
-      HFileBlockEncodingContext encodingResult,
+    boolean includesMemstoreTS,
-      BlockType blockType) throws IOException;
+    HFileBlockEncodingContext encodingResult,
+    BlockType blockType
+  ) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Decides whether we should use a scanner over encoded blocks.
    * @param isCompaction whether we are in a compaction.
    * @return Whether to use encoded scanner.
    */
-  public boolean useEncodedScanner(boolean isCompaction);
+  boolean useEncodedScanner(boolean isCompaction);
 
   /**
    * Save metadata in HFile which will be written to disk
    * @param writer writer for a given HFile
    * @exception IOException on disk problems
    */
-  public void saveMetadata(HFile.Writer writer)
+  void saveMetadata(HFile.Writer writer)
       throws IOException;
 
   /** @return the on-disk data block encoding */
-  public DataBlockEncoding getEncodingOnDisk();
+  DataBlockEncoding getEncodingOnDisk();
 
   /** @return the preferred in-cache data block encoding for normal reads */
-  public DataBlockEncoding getEncodingInCache();
+  DataBlockEncoding getEncodingInCache();
 
   /**
    * @return the effective in-cache data block encoding, taking into account
    *         whether we are doing a compaction.
    */
-  public DataBlockEncoding getEffectiveEncodingInCache(boolean isCompaction);
+  DataBlockEncoding getEffectiveEncodingInCache(boolean isCompaction);
 
   /**
    * Create an encoder specific encoding context object for writing. And the
@@ -101,8 +104,9 @@ public interface HFileDataBlockEncoder {
    * @param headerBytes header bytes
    * @return a new {@link HFileBlockEncodingContext} object
    */
-  public HFileBlockEncodingContext newOnDiskDataBlockEncodingContext(
+  HFileBlockEncodingContext newOnDiskDataBlockEncodingContext(
-      Algorithm compressionAlgorithm, byte[] headerBytes);
+    Algorithm compressionAlgorithm, byte[] headerBytes
+  );
 
   /**
    * create a encoder specific decoding context for reading. And the
@@ -112,7 +116,8 @@ public interface HFileDataBlockEncoder {
    * @param compressionAlgorithm
    * @return a new {@link HFileBlockDecodingContext} object
    */
-  public HFileBlockDecodingContext newOnDiskDataBlockDecodingContext(
+  HFileBlockDecodingContext newOnDiskDataBlockDecodingContext(
-      Algorithm compressionAlgorithm);
+    Algorithm compressionAlgorithm
+  );
 
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/hfile/HFileScanner.java

@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ public interface HFileScanner {
    * false when it is called.
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public int seekTo(byte[] key) throws IOException;
+  int seekTo(byte[] key) throws IOException;
-  public int seekTo(byte[] key, int offset, int length) throws IOException;
+  int seekTo(byte[] key, int offset, int length) throws IOException;
   /**
    * Reseek to or just before the passed <code>key</code>. Similar to seekTo
    * except that this can be called even if the scanner is not at the beginning
@@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ public interface HFileScanner {
    * 1, such that k[i] < key, and scanner is left in position i.
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public int reseekTo(byte[] key) throws IOException;
+  int reseekTo(byte[] key) throws IOException;
-  public int reseekTo(byte[] key, int offset, int length) throws IOException;
+  int reseekTo(byte[] key, int offset, int length) throws IOException;
   /**
    * Consider the key stream of all the keys in the file,
    * <code>k[0] .. k[n]</code>, where there are n keys in the file.
@@ -88,28 +88,28 @@ public interface HFileScanner {
    * return false (EOF).
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public boolean seekBefore(byte [] key) throws IOException;
+  boolean seekBefore(byte[] key) throws IOException;
-  public boolean seekBefore(byte []key, int offset, int length) throws IOException;
+  boolean seekBefore(byte[] key, int offset, int length) throws IOException;
   /**
    * Positions this scanner at the start of the file.
    * @return False if empty file; i.e. a call to next would return false and
    * the current key and value are undefined.
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public boolean seekTo() throws IOException;
+  boolean seekTo() throws IOException;
   /**
    * Scans to the next entry in the file.
    * @return Returns false if you are at the end otherwise true if more in file.
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public boolean next() throws IOException;
+  boolean next() throws IOException;
   /**
    * Gets a buffer view to the current key. You must call
    * {@link #seekTo(byte[])} before this method.
    * @return byte buffer for the key. The limit is set to the key size, and the
    * position is 0, the start of the buffer view.
    */
-  public ByteBuffer getKey();
+  ByteBuffer getKey();
   /**
    * Gets a buffer view to the current value.  You must call
    * {@link #seekTo(byte[])} before this method.
@@ -117,31 +117,31 @@ public interface HFileScanner {
    * @return byte buffer for the value. The limit is set to the value size, and
    * the position is 0, the start of the buffer view.
    */
-  public ByteBuffer getValue();
+  ByteBuffer getValue();
   /**
    * @return Instance of {@link KeyValue}.
    */
-  public KeyValue getKeyValue();
+  KeyValue getKeyValue();
   /**
    * Convenience method to get a copy of the key as a string - interpreting the
    * bytes as UTF8. You must call {@link #seekTo(byte[])} before this method.
    * @return key as a string
    */
-  public String getKeyString();
+  String getKeyString();
   /**
    * Convenience method to get a copy of the value as a string - interpreting
    * the bytes as UTF8. You must call {@link #seekTo(byte[])} before this method.
    * @return value as a string
    */
-  public String getValueString();
+  String getValueString();
   /**
    * @return Reader that underlies this Scanner instance.
    */
-  public HFile.Reader getReader();
+  HFile.Reader getReader();
   /**
    * @return True is scanner has had one of the seek calls invoked; i.e.
    * {@link #seekBefore(byte[])} or {@link #seekTo()} or {@link #seekTo(byte[])}.
    * Otherwise returns false.
    */
-  public boolean isSeeked();
+  boolean isSeeked();
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/ipc/Delayable.java

@@ -35,17 +35,17 @@ public interface Delayable {
    * should be set when ending the delay or right away.  There are cases when
    * the return value can be set right away, even if the call is delayed.
    */
-  public void startDelay(boolean delayReturnValue);
+  void startDelay(boolean delayReturnValue);
 
   /**
    * @return is the call delayed?
    */
-  public boolean isDelayed();
+  boolean isDelayed();
 
   /**
    * @return is the return value delayed?
    */
-  public boolean isReturnValueDelayed();
+  boolean isReturnValueDelayed();
 
   /**
    * Signal that the  RPC server is now allowed to send the response.
@@ -54,14 +54,14 @@ public interface Delayable {
    * not be delayed, this parameter must be null.
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public void endDelay(Object result) throws IOException;
+  void endDelay(Object result) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Signal the end of a delayed RPC, without specifying the return value.  Use
    * this only if the return value was not delayed
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public void endDelay() throws IOException;
+  void endDelay() throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * End the call, throwing and exception to the caller.  This works regardless
@@ -69,5 +69,5 @@ public interface Delayable {
    * @param t Object to throw to the client.
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public void endDelayThrowing(Throwable t) throws IOException;
+  void endDelayThrowing(Throwable t) throws IOException;
-}
+}

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/ipc/HBaseRPCErrorHandler.java

@@ -31,5 +31,5 @@ public interface HBaseRPCErrorHandler {
 	 * @param e the throwable
 	 * @return if the server should be shut down
 	 */
-	public boolean checkOOME(final Throwable e) ;
+  boolean checkOOME(final Throwable e) ;
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/ipc/RpcServerInterface.java

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ public interface RpcServerInterface {
    */
   MetricsHBaseServer getMetrics();
 
-  public void setQosFunction(Function<Pair<RequestHeader, Message>, Integer> newFunc);
+  void setQosFunction(Function<Pair<RequestHeader, Message>, Integer> newFunc);
 
   /**
    * Refresh autentication manager policy.
@@ -73,4 +73,4 @@ public interface RpcServerInterface {
    */
   @VisibleForTesting
   void refreshAuthManager(PolicyProvider pp);
-}
+}

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/AssignmentManager.java

@@ -1145,11 +1145,11 @@ public class AssignmentManager extends ZooKeeperListener {
   /**
    * A specific runnable that works only on a region.
    */
-  private static interface RegionRunnable extends Runnable{
+  private interface RegionRunnable extends Runnable{
     /**
      * @return - the name of the region it works on.
      */
-    public String getRegionName();
+    String getRegionName();
   }
 
   /**

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/ClusterStatusPublisher.java

@@ -220,14 +220,14 @@ public class ClusterStatusPublisher extends Chore {
   }
 
 
-  public static interface Publisher extends Closeable {
+  public interface Publisher extends Closeable {
 
-    public void connect(Configuration conf) throws IOException;
+    void connect(Configuration conf) throws IOException;
 
-    public void publish(ClusterStatus cs);
+    void publish(ClusterStatus cs);
 
     @Override
-    public void close();
+    void close();
   }
 
   public static class MulticastPublisher implements Publisher {

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/LoadBalancer.java

@@ -50,21 +50,21 @@ public interface LoadBalancer extends Configurable {
    * Set the current cluster status.  This allows a LoadBalancer to map host name to a server
    * @param st
    */
-  public void setClusterStatus(ClusterStatus st);
+  void setClusterStatus(ClusterStatus st);
 
 
   /**
    * Set the master service.
    * @param masterServices
    */
-  public void setMasterServices(MasterServices masterServices);
+  void setMasterServices(MasterServices masterServices);
 
   /**
    * Perform the major balance operation
    * @param clusterState
    * @return List of plans
    */
-  public List<RegionPlan> balanceCluster(Map<ServerName, List<HRegionInfo>> clusterState);
+  List<RegionPlan> balanceCluster(Map<ServerName, List<HRegionInfo>> clusterState);
 
   /**
    * Perform a Round Robin assignment of regions.
@@ -72,7 +72,10 @@ public interface LoadBalancer extends Configurable {
    * @param servers
    * @return Map of servername to regioninfos
    */
-  public Map<ServerName, List<HRegionInfo>> roundRobinAssignment(List<HRegionInfo> regions, List<ServerName> servers);
+  Map<ServerName, List<HRegionInfo>> roundRobinAssignment(
+    List<HRegionInfo> regions,
+    List<ServerName> servers
+  );
 
   /**
    * Assign regions to the previously hosting region server
@@ -80,7 +83,10 @@ public interface LoadBalancer extends Configurable {
    * @param servers
    * @return List of plans
    */
-  public Map<ServerName, List<HRegionInfo>> retainAssignment(Map<HRegionInfo, ServerName> regions, List<ServerName> servers);
+  Map<ServerName, List<HRegionInfo>> retainAssignment(
+    Map<HRegionInfo, ServerName> regions,
+    List<ServerName> servers
+  );
 
   /**
    * Sync assign a region
@@ -88,7 +94,10 @@ public interface LoadBalancer extends Configurable {
    * @param servers
     * @return Map regioninfos to servernames
    */
-  public Map<HRegionInfo, ServerName> immediateAssignment(List<HRegionInfo> regions, List<ServerName> servers);
+  Map<HRegionInfo, ServerName> immediateAssignment(
+    List<HRegionInfo> regions,
+    List<ServerName> servers
+  );
 
   /**
    * Get a random region server from the list
@@ -96,6 +105,7 @@ public interface LoadBalancer extends Configurable {
    * @param servers
    * @return Servername
    */
-  public ServerName randomAssignment(HRegionInfo regionInfo, 
+  ServerName randomAssignment(
-		  List<ServerName> servers);
+    HRegionInfo regionInfo, List<ServerName> servers
+  );
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/MasterServices.java

@@ -40,32 +40,32 @@ public interface MasterServices extends Server {
   /**
    * @return Master's instance of the {@link AssignmentManager}
    */
-  public AssignmentManager getAssignmentManager();
+  AssignmentManager getAssignmentManager();
 
   /**
    * @return Master's filesystem {@link MasterFileSystem} utility class.
    */
-  public MasterFileSystem getMasterFileSystem();
+  MasterFileSystem getMasterFileSystem();
 
   /**
    * @return Master's {@link ServerManager} instance.
    */
-  public ServerManager getServerManager();
+  ServerManager getServerManager();
 
   /**
    * @return Master's instance of {@link ExecutorService}
    */
-  public ExecutorService getExecutorService();
+  ExecutorService getExecutorService();
 
   /**
    * @return Master's instance of {@link TableLockManager}
    */
-  public TableLockManager getTableLockManager();
+  TableLockManager getTableLockManager();
 
   /**
    * @return Master's instance of {@link MasterCoprocessorHost}
    */
-  public MasterCoprocessorHost getCoprocessorHost();
+  MasterCoprocessorHost getCoprocessorHost();
 
   /**
    * Check table is modifiable; i.e. exists and is offline.
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ public interface MasterServices extends Server {
    * @throws IOException
    */
   // We actually throw the exceptions mentioned in the
-  public void checkTableModifiable(final byte [] tableName)
+  void checkTableModifiable(final byte[] tableName)
       throws IOException, TableNotFoundException, TableNotDisabledException;
 
   /**
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ public interface MasterServices extends Server {
    * @param splitKeys Starting row keys for the initial table regions.  If null
    *     a single region is created.
    */
-  public void createTable(HTableDescriptor desc, byte [][] splitKeys)
+  void createTable(HTableDescriptor desc, byte[][] splitKeys)
       throws IOException;
 
   /**
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ public interface MasterServices extends Server {
    * @param tableName The table name
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public void deleteTable(final byte[] tableName) throws IOException;
+  void deleteTable(final byte[] tableName) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Modify the descriptor of an existing table
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ public interface MasterServices extends Server {
    * @param descriptor The updated table descriptor
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public void modifyTable(final byte[] tableName, final HTableDescriptor descriptor)
+  void modifyTable(final byte[] tableName, final HTableDescriptor descriptor)
       throws IOException;
 
   /**
@@ -108,14 +108,14 @@ public interface MasterServices extends Server {
    * @param tableName The table name
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public void enableTable(final byte[] tableName) throws IOException;
+  void enableTable(final byte[] tableName) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Disable an existing table
    * @param tableName The table name
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public void disableTable(final byte[] tableName) throws IOException;
+  void disableTable(final byte[] tableName) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Add a new column to an existing table
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ public interface MasterServices extends Server {
    * @param column The column definition
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public void addColumn(final byte[] tableName, final HColumnDescriptor column)
+  void addColumn(final byte[] tableName, final HColumnDescriptor column)
       throws IOException;
 
   /**
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ public interface MasterServices extends Server {
    * @param descriptor The updated column definition
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public void modifyColumn(byte[] tableName, HColumnDescriptor descriptor)
+  void modifyColumn(byte[] tableName, HColumnDescriptor descriptor)
       throws IOException;
 
   /**
@@ -141,18 +141,18 @@ public interface MasterServices extends Server {
    * @param columnName The column name
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public void deleteColumn(final byte[] tableName, final byte[] columnName)
+  void deleteColumn(final byte[] tableName, final byte[] columnName)
       throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * @return Return table descriptors implementation.
    */
-  public TableDescriptors getTableDescriptors();
+  TableDescriptors getTableDescriptors();
 
   /**
    * @return true if master enables ServerShutdownHandler;
    */
-  public boolean isServerShutdownHandlerEnabled();
+  boolean isServerShutdownHandlerEnabled();
 
   /**
    * Registers a new protocol buffer {@link Service} subclass as a master coprocessor endpoint.
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ public interface MasterServices extends Server {
    * @return {@code true} if the registration was successful, {@code false}
    * otherwise
    */
-  public boolean registerService(Service instance);
+  boolean registerService(Service instance);
 
   /**
    * Merge two regions. The real implementation is on the regionserver, master
@@ -178,12 +178,13 @@ public interface MasterServices extends Server {
    *          two adjacent regions
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public void dispatchMergingRegions(final HRegionInfo region_a,
+  void dispatchMergingRegions(
-      final HRegionInfo region_b, final boolean forcible) throws IOException;
+    final HRegionInfo region_a, final HRegionInfo region_b, final boolean forcible
+  ) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * @return true if master is initialized
    */
-  public boolean isInitialized();
+  boolean isInitialized();
 
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/SnapshotSentinel.java

@@ -34,30 +34,30 @@ public interface SnapshotSentinel {
    * @return <tt>false</tt> if the snapshot is still in progress, <tt>true</tt> if the snapshot has
    *         finished
    */
-  public boolean isFinished();
+  boolean isFinished();
 
   /**
    * @return -1 if the snapshot is in progress, otherwise the completion timestamp.
    */
-  public long getCompletionTimestamp();
+  long getCompletionTimestamp();
 
   /**
    * Actively cancel a running snapshot.
    * @param why Reason for cancellation.
    */
-  public void cancel(String why);
+  void cancel(String why);
 
   /**
    * @return the description of the snapshot being run
    */
-  public SnapshotDescription getSnapshot();
+  SnapshotDescription getSnapshot();
 
   /**
    * Get the exception that caused the snapshot to fail, if the snapshot has failed.
    * @return {@link ForeignException} that caused the snapshot to fail, or <tt>null</tt> if the
    *  snapshot is still in progress or has succeeded
    */
-  public ForeignException getExceptionIfFailed();
+  ForeignException getExceptionIfFailed();
 
   /**
    * Rethrow the exception returned by {@link SnapshotSentinel#getExceptionIfFailed}.
@@ -65,5 +65,5 @@ public interface SnapshotSentinel {
    *
    * @throws ForeignException all exceptions from remote sources are procedure exceptions
    */
-  public void rethrowExceptionIfFailed() throws ForeignException;
+  void rethrowExceptionIfFailed() throws ForeignException;
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/SplitLogManager.java

@@ -1593,11 +1593,11 @@ public class SplitLogManager extends ZooKeeperListener {
    * a serialization point at the end of the task processing. Must be
    * restartable and idempotent.
    */
-  static public interface TaskFinisher {
+  public interface TaskFinisher {
     /**
      * status that can be returned finish()
      */
-    static public enum Status {
+    enum Status {
       /**
        * task completed successfully
        */
@@ -1616,7 +1616,7 @@ public class SplitLogManager extends ZooKeeperListener {
      * @param taskname
      * @return DONE if task completed successfully, ERR otherwise
      */
-    public Status finish(ServerName workerName, String taskname);
+    Status finish(ServerName workerName, String taskname);
   }
 
   enum ResubmitDirective {

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/TableLockManager.java

@@ -82,20 +82,20 @@ public abstract class TableLockManager {
    * A distributed lock for a table.
    */
   @InterfaceAudience.Private
-  public static interface TableLock {
+  public interface TableLock {
     /**
      * Acquire the lock, with the configured lock timeout.
      * @throws LockTimeoutException If unable to acquire a lock within a specified
      * time period (if any)
      * @throws IOException If unrecoverable error occurs
      */
-    public void acquire() throws IOException;
+    void acquire() throws IOException;
 
     /**
      * Release the lock already held.
      * @throws IOException If there is an unrecoverable error releasing the lock
      */
-    public void release() throws IOException;
+    void release() throws IOException;
   }
 
   /**

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/cleaner/FileCleanerDelegate.java

@@ -35,5 +35,5 @@ public interface FileCleanerDelegate extends Configurable, Stoppable {
    * @param fStat file status of the file to check
    * @return <tt>true</tt> if the file is deletable, <tt>false</tt> if not
    */
-  public boolean isFileDeletable(FileStatus fStat);
+  boolean isFileDeletable(FileStatus fStat);
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/handler/TotesHRegionInfo.java

@@ -33,5 +33,5 @@ public interface TotesHRegionInfo {
   /**
    * @return HRegionInfo instance.
    */
-  public HRegionInfo getHRegionInfo();
+  HRegionInfo getHRegionInfo();
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/monitoring/MonitoredRPCHandler.java

@@ -29,16 +29,16 @@ import com.google.protobuf.Message;
  */
 @InterfaceAudience.Private
 public interface MonitoredRPCHandler extends MonitoredTask {
-  public abstract String getRPC();
+  String getRPC();
-  public abstract String getRPC(boolean withParams);
+  String getRPC(boolean withParams);
-  public abstract long getRPCPacketLength();
+  long getRPCPacketLength();
-  public abstract String getClient();
+  String getClient();
-  public abstract long getRPCStartTime();
+  long getRPCStartTime();
-  public abstract long getRPCQueueTime();
+  long getRPCQueueTime();
-  public abstract boolean isRPCRunning();
+  boolean isRPCRunning();
-  public abstract boolean isOperationRunning();
+  boolean isOperationRunning();
 
-  public abstract void setRPC(String methodName, Object [] params, long queueTime);
+  void setRPC(String methodName, Object[] params, long queueTime);
-  public abstract void setRPCPacket(Message param);
+  void setRPCPacket(Message param);
-  public abstract void setConnection(String clientAddress, int remotePort);
+  void setConnection(String clientAddress, int remotePort);
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/monitoring/MonitoredTask.java

@@ -32,47 +32,47 @@ public interface MonitoredTask extends Cloneable {
     ABORTED;
   }
 
-  public abstract long getStartTime();
+  long getStartTime();
-  public abstract String getDescription();
+  String getDescription();
-  public abstract String getStatus();
+  String getStatus();
-  public abstract long getStatusTime();
+  long getStatusTime();
-  public abstract State getState();
+  State getState();
-  public abstract long getStateTime();
+  long getStateTime();
-  public abstract long getCompletionTimestamp();
+  long getCompletionTimestamp();
 
-  public abstract void markComplete(String msg);
+  void markComplete(String msg);
-  public abstract void pause(String msg);
+  void pause(String msg);
-  public abstract void resume(String msg);
+  void resume(String msg);
-  public abstract void abort(String msg);
+  void abort(String msg);
-  public abstract void expireNow();
+  void expireNow();
 
-  public abstract void setStatus(String status);
+  void setStatus(String status);
-  public abstract void setDescription(String description);
+  void setDescription(String description);
 
   /**
    * Explicitly mark this status as able to be cleaned up,
    * even though it might not be complete.
    */
-  public abstract void cleanup();
+  void cleanup();
 
   /**
    * Public exposure of Object.clone() in order to allow clients to easily 
    * capture current state.
    * @return a copy of the object whose references will not change
    */
-  public abstract MonitoredTask clone();
+  MonitoredTask clone();
 
   /**
    * Creates a string map of internal details for extensible exposure of 
    * monitored tasks.
    * @return A Map containing information for this task.
    */
-  public abstract Map<String, Object> toMap() throws IOException;
+  Map<String, Object> toMap() throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Creates a JSON object for parseable exposure of monitored tasks.
    * @return An encoded JSON object containing information for this task.
    */
-  public abstract String toJSON() throws IOException;
+  String toJSON() throws IOException;
 
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/procedure/ProcedureCoordinatorRpcs.java

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ public interface ProcedureCoordinatorRpcs extends Closeable {
    * @param listener
    * @return true if succeed, false if encountered initialization errors.
    */
-  public boolean start(final ProcedureCoordinator listener);
+  boolean start(final ProcedureCoordinator listener);
 
   /**
    * Notify the members that the coordinator has aborted the procedure and that it should release
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ public interface ProcedureCoordinatorRpcs extends Closeable {
    * @throws IOException if the rpcs can't reach the other members of the procedure (and can't
    *           recover).
    */
-  public void sendAbortToMembers(Procedure procName, ForeignException cause) throws IOException;
+  void sendAbortToMembers(Procedure procName, ForeignException cause) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Notify the members to acquire barrier for the procedure
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ public interface ProcedureCoordinatorRpcs extends Closeable {
    * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the procedure was already marked as failed
    * @throws IOException if we can't reach the remote notification mechanism
    */
-  public void sendGlobalBarrierAcquire(Procedure procName, byte[] info, List<String> members)
+  void sendGlobalBarrierAcquire(Procedure procName, byte[] info, List<String> members)
       throws IOException, IllegalArgumentException;
 
   /**
@@ -74,12 +74,12 @@ public interface ProcedureCoordinatorRpcs extends Closeable {
    * @param members members to tell we have reached in-barrier phase
    * @throws IOException if we can't reach the remote notification mechanism
    */
-  public void sendGlobalBarrierReached(Procedure procName, List<String> members) throws IOException;
+  void sendGlobalBarrierReached(Procedure procName, List<String> members) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Notify Members to reset the distributed state for procedure
    * @param procName name of the procedure to reset
    * @throws IOException if the remote notification mechanism cannot be reached
    */
-  public void resetMembers(Procedure procName) throws IOException;
+  void resetMembers(Procedure procName) throws IOException;
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/procedure/ProcedureMemberRpcs.java

@@ -35,13 +35,13 @@ public interface ProcedureMemberRpcs extends Closeable {
   /**
    * Initialize and start any threads or connections the member needs.
    */
-  public void start(final String memberName, final ProcedureMember member);
+  void start(final String memberName, final ProcedureMember member);
 
   /**
    * Each subprocedure is being executed on a member.  This is the identifier for the member.
    * @return the member name
    */
-  public String getMemberName();
+  String getMemberName();
 
   /**
    * Notify the coordinator that we aborted the specified {@link Subprocedure}
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ public interface ProcedureMemberRpcs extends Closeable {
    * @throws IOException thrown when the rpcs can't reach the other members of the procedure (and
    *  thus can't recover).
    */
-  public void sendMemberAborted(Subprocedure sub, ForeignException cause) throws IOException;
+  void sendMemberAborted(Subprocedure sub, ForeignException cause) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Notify the coordinator that the specified {@link Subprocedure} has acquired the locally required
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ public interface ProcedureMemberRpcs extends Closeable {
    * @param sub the specified {@link Subprocedure}
    * @throws IOException if we can't reach the coordinator
    */
-  public void sendMemberAcquired(Subprocedure sub) throws IOException;
+  void sendMemberAcquired(Subprocedure sub) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Notify the coordinator that the specified {@link Subprocedure} has completed the work that
@@ -69,5 +69,5 @@ public interface ProcedureMemberRpcs extends Closeable {
    * @param sub the specified {@link Subprocedure}
    * @throws IOException if we can't reach the coordinator
    */
-  public void sendMemberCompleted(Subprocedure sub) throws IOException;
+  void sendMemberCompleted(Subprocedure sub) throws IOException;
-}
+}

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/procedure/SubprocedureFactory.java

@@ -36,5 +36,5 @@ public interface SubprocedureFactory {
    *           request
    * @throws IllegalStateException if the current runner cannot accept any more new requests
    */
-  public Subprocedure buildSubprocedure(String procName, byte[] procArgs);
+  Subprocedure buildSubprocedure(String procName, byte[] procArgs);
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/ColumnTracker.java

@@ -56,25 +56,26 @@ public interface ColumnTracker {
    * @throws IOException in case there is an internal consistency problem
    *      caused by a data corruption.
    */
-  public ScanQueryMatcher.MatchCode checkColumn(byte[] bytes, int offset,
+  ScanQueryMatcher.MatchCode checkColumn(
-      int length, long ttl, byte type, boolean ignoreCount)
+    byte[] bytes, int offset, int length, long ttl, byte type, boolean ignoreCount
+  )
       throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Updates internal variables in between files
    */
-  public void update();
+  void update();
 
   /**
    * Resets the Matcher
    */
-  public void reset();
+  void reset();
 
   /**
    *
    * @return <code>true</code> when done.
    */
-  public boolean done();
+  boolean done();
 
   /**
    * Used by matcher and scan/get to get a hint of the next column
@@ -87,13 +88,14 @@ public interface ColumnTracker {
    *
    * @return null, or a ColumnCount that we should seek to
    */
-  public ColumnCount getColumnHint();
+  ColumnCount getColumnHint();
 
   /**
    * Retrieve the MatchCode for the next row or column
    */
-  public MatchCode getNextRowOrNextColumn(byte[] bytes, int offset,
+  MatchCode getNextRowOrNextColumn(
-      int qualLength);
+    byte[] bytes, int offset, int qualLength
+  );
 
   /**
    * Give the tracker a chance to declare it's done based on only the timestamp
@@ -102,5 +104,5 @@ public interface ColumnTracker {
    * @param timestamp
    * @return <code>true</code> to early out based on timestamp.
    */
-  public boolean isDone(long timestamp);
+  boolean isDone(long timestamp);
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/CompactionRequestor.java

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ public interface CompactionRequestor {
    *         compactions were started
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public List<CompactionRequest> requestCompaction(final HRegion r, final String why)
+  List<CompactionRequest> requestCompaction(final HRegion r, final String why)
       throws IOException;
 
   /**
@@ -47,8 +47,9 @@ public interface CompactionRequestor {
    *         compactions were started
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public List<CompactionRequest> requestCompaction(final HRegion r, final String why,
+  List<CompactionRequest> requestCompaction(
-      List<Pair<CompactionRequest, Store>> requests)
+    final HRegion r, final String why, List<Pair<CompactionRequest, Store>> requests
+  )
       throws IOException;
 
   /**
@@ -60,8 +61,9 @@ public interface CompactionRequestor {
    * @return The created {@link CompactionRequest} or <tt>null</tt> if no compaction was started.
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public CompactionRequest requestCompaction(final HRegion r, final Store s, final String why,
+  CompactionRequest requestCompaction(
-      CompactionRequest request) throws IOException;
+    final HRegion r, final Store s, final String why, CompactionRequest request
+  ) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * @param r Region to compact
@@ -74,8 +76,9 @@ public interface CompactionRequestor {
    *         compactions were started.
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public List<CompactionRequest> requestCompaction(final HRegion r, final String why, int pri,
+  List<CompactionRequest> requestCompaction(
-      List<Pair<CompactionRequest, Store>> requests) throws IOException;
+    final HRegion r, final String why, int pri, List<Pair<CompactionRequest, Store>> requests
+  ) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * @param r Region to compact
@@ -87,6 +90,7 @@ public interface CompactionRequestor {
    * @return The created {@link CompactionRequest} or <tt>null</tt> if no compaction was started
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public CompactionRequest requestCompaction(final HRegion r, final Store s, final String why,
+  CompactionRequest requestCompaction(
-      int pri, CompactionRequest request) throws IOException;
+    final HRegion r, final Store s, final String why, int pri, CompactionRequest request
+  ) throws IOException;
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/DeleteTracker.java

@@ -43,8 +43,9 @@ public interface DeleteTracker {
    * @param timestamp timestamp
    * @param type delete type as byte
    */
-  public void add(byte [] buffer, int qualifierOffset, int qualifierLength,
+  void add(
-      long timestamp, byte type);
+    byte[] buffer, int qualifierOffset, int qualifierLength, long timestamp, byte type
+  );
 
   /**
    * Check if the specified KeyValue buffer has been deleted by a previously
@@ -55,13 +56,14 @@ public interface DeleteTracker {
    * @param timestamp timestamp
    * @return deleteResult The result tells whether the KeyValue is deleted and why
    */
-  public DeleteResult isDeleted(byte [] buffer, int qualifierOffset,
+  DeleteResult isDeleted(
-      int qualifierLength, long timestamp);
+    byte[] buffer, int qualifierOffset, int qualifierLength, long timestamp
+  );
 
   /**
    * @return true if there are no current delete, false otherwise
    */
-  public boolean isEmpty();
+  boolean isEmpty();
 
   /**
    * Called at the end of every StoreFile.
@@ -69,14 +71,14 @@ public interface DeleteTracker {
    * Many optimized implementations of Trackers will require an update at
    * when the end of each StoreFile is reached.
    */
-  public void update();
+  void update();
 
   /**
    * Called between rows.
    * <p>
    * This clears everything as if a new DeleteTracker was instantiated.
    */
-  public void reset();
+  void reset();
 
 
   /**
@@ -102,7 +104,7 @@ public interface DeleteTracker {
    * Based on the delete result, the ScanQueryMatcher will decide the next
    * operation
    */
-  public static enum DeleteResult {
+  enum DeleteResult {
     FAMILY_DELETED, // The KeyValue is deleted by a delete family.
     FAMILY_VERSION_DELETED, // The KeyValue is deleted by a delete family version.
     COLUMN_DELETED, // The KeyValue is deleted by a delete column.

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegion.java

@@ -5630,7 +5630,7 @@ public class HRegion implements HeapSize { // , Writable{
    * bulkLoadHFile() to perform any necessary
    * pre/post processing of a given bulkload call
    */
-  public static interface BulkLoadListener {
+  public interface BulkLoadListener {
 
     /**
      * Called before an HFile is actually loaded

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/InternalScanner.java

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ public interface InternalScanner extends Closeable {
    * @return true if more rows exist after this one, false if scanner is done
    * @throws IOException e
    */
-  public boolean next(List<KeyValue> results) throws IOException;
+  boolean next(List<KeyValue> results) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Grab the next row's worth of values with a limit on the number of values
@@ -57,11 +57,11 @@ public interface InternalScanner extends Closeable {
    * @return true if more rows exist after this one, false if scanner is done
    * @throws IOException e
    */
-  public boolean next(List<KeyValue> result, int limit) throws IOException;
+  boolean next(List<KeyValue> result, int limit) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Closes the scanner and releases any resources it has allocated
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public void close() throws IOException;
+  void close() throws IOException;
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/KeyValueScanner.java

@@ -34,20 +34,20 @@ public interface KeyValueScanner {
    * Look at the next KeyValue in this scanner, but do not iterate scanner.
    * @return the next KeyValue
    */
-  public KeyValue peek();
+  KeyValue peek();
 
   /**
    * Return the next KeyValue in this scanner, iterating the scanner
    * @return the next KeyValue
    */
-  public KeyValue next() throws IOException;
+  KeyValue next() throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Seek the scanner at or after the specified KeyValue.
    * @param key seek value
    * @return true if scanner has values left, false if end of scanner
    */
-  public boolean seek(KeyValue key) throws IOException;
+  boolean seek(KeyValue key) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Reseek the scanner at or after the specified KeyValue.
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ public interface KeyValueScanner {
    * @param key seek value (should be non-null)
    * @return true if scanner has values left, false if end of scanner
    */
-  public boolean reseek(KeyValue key) throws IOException;
+  boolean reseek(KeyValue key) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Get the sequence id associated with this KeyValueScanner. This is required
@@ -65,12 +65,12 @@ public interface KeyValueScanner {
    * The default implementation for this would be to return 0. A file having
    * lower sequence id will be considered to be the older one.
    */
-  public long getSequenceID();
+  long getSequenceID();
 
   /**
    * Close the KeyValue scanner.
    */
-  public void close();
+  void close();
 
   /**
    * Allows to filter out scanners (both StoreFile and memstore) that we don't
@@ -82,8 +82,9 @@ public interface KeyValueScanner {
    *          this query, based on TTL
    * @return true if the scanner should be included in the query
    */
-  public boolean shouldUseScanner(Scan scan, SortedSet<byte[]> columns,
+  boolean shouldUseScanner(
-      long oldestUnexpiredTS);
+    Scan scan, SortedSet<byte[]> columns, long oldestUnexpiredTS
+  );
 
   // "Lazy scanner" optimizations
 
@@ -97,7 +98,7 @@ public interface KeyValueScanner {
    * @param forward do a forward-only "reseek" instead of a random-access seek
    * @param useBloom whether to enable multi-column Bloom filter optimization
    */
-  public boolean requestSeek(KeyValue kv, boolean forward, boolean useBloom)
+  boolean requestSeek(KeyValue kv, boolean forward, boolean useBloom)
       throws IOException;
 
   /**
@@ -106,7 +107,7 @@ public interface KeyValueScanner {
    * store scanner bubbles up to the top of the key-value heap. This method is
    * then used to ensure the top store file scanner has done a seek operation.
    */
-  public boolean realSeekDone();
+  boolean realSeekDone();
 
   /**
    * Does the real seek operation in case it was skipped by
@@ -115,11 +116,11 @@ public interface KeyValueScanner {
    * of the scanners). The easiest way to achieve this is to call
    * {@link #realSeekDone()} first.
    */
-  public void enforceSeek() throws IOException;
+  void enforceSeek() throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * @return true if this is a file scanner. Otherwise a memory scanner is
    *         assumed.
    */
-  public boolean isFileScanner();  
+  boolean isFileScanner();
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/LastSequenceId.java

@@ -29,5 +29,5 @@ public interface LastSequenceId {
    * @param regionName Encoded region name
    * @return Last flushed sequence Id for regionName or -1 if it can't be determined
    */
-  public long getLastSequenceId(byte[] regionName);
+  long getLastSequenceId(byte[] regionName);
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/LeaseListener.java

@@ -32,5 +32,5 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
 @InterfaceAudience.Private
 public interface LeaseListener {
   /** When a lease expires, this method is called. */
-  public void leaseExpired();
+  void leaseExpired();
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/OnlineRegions.java

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ interface OnlineRegions extends Server {
    * Add to online regions.
    * @param r
    */
-  public void addToOnlineRegions(final HRegion r);
+  void addToOnlineRegions(final HRegion r);
 
   /**
    * This method removes HRegion corresponding to hri from the Map of onlineRegions.
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ interface OnlineRegions extends Server {
    * @param destination Destination, if any, null otherwise.
    * @return True if we removed a region from online list.
    */
-  public boolean removeFromOnlineRegions(final HRegion r, ServerName destination);
+  boolean removeFromOnlineRegions(final HRegion r, ServerName destination);
 
   /**
    * Return {@link HRegion} instance.
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ interface OnlineRegions extends Server {
    * @return HRegion for the passed encoded <code>encodedRegionName</code> or
    * null if named region is not member of the online regions.
    */
-  public HRegion getFromOnlineRegions(String encodedRegionName);
+  HRegion getFromOnlineRegions(String encodedRegionName);
 
    /**
     * Get all online regions of a table in this RS.
@@ -62,5 +62,5 @@ interface OnlineRegions extends Server {
     * @return List of HRegion
     * @throws java.io.IOException
     */
-   public List<HRegion> getOnlineRegions(byte[] tableName) throws IOException;
+   List<HRegion> getOnlineRegions(byte[] tableName) throws IOException;
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/RegionScanner.java

@@ -34,13 +34,13 @@ public interface RegionScanner extends InternalScanner {
   /**
    * @return The RegionInfo for this scanner.
    */
-  public HRegionInfo getRegionInfo();
+  HRegionInfo getRegionInfo();
 
   /**
    * @return True if a filter indicates that this scanner will return no further rows.
    * @throws IOException in case of I/O failure on a filter.
    */
-  public boolean isFilterDone() throws IOException;
+  boolean isFilterDone() throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Do a reseek to the required row. Should not be used to seek to a key which
@@ -52,17 +52,17 @@ public interface RegionScanner extends InternalScanner {
    *           if row is null
    *
    */
-  public boolean reseek(byte[] row) throws IOException;
+  boolean reseek(byte[] row) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * @return The preferred max buffersize. See {@link Scan#setMaxResultSize(long)}
    */
-  public long getMaxResultSize();
+  long getMaxResultSize();
 
   /**
    * @return The Scanner's MVCC readPt see {@link MultiVersionConsistencyControl}
    */
-  public long getMvccReadPoint();
+  long getMvccReadPoint();
 
   /**
    * Grab the next row's worth of values with the default limit on the number of values
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ public interface RegionScanner extends InternalScanner {
    * @return true if more rows exist after this one, false if scanner is done
    * @throws IOException e
    */
-  public boolean nextRaw(List<KeyValue> result) throws IOException;
+  boolean nextRaw(List<KeyValue> result) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Grab the next row's worth of values with a limit on the number of values
@@ -102,5 +102,5 @@ public interface RegionScanner extends InternalScanner {
    * @return true if more rows exist after this one, false if scanner is done
    * @throws IOException e
    */
-  public boolean nextRaw(List<KeyValue> result, int limit) throws IOException;
+  boolean nextRaw(List<KeyValue> result, int limit) throws IOException;
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/RegionServerServices.java

@@ -40,31 +40,31 @@ public interface RegionServerServices extends OnlineRegions, FavoredNodesForRegi
   /**
    * @return True if this regionserver is stopping.
    */
-  public boolean isStopping();
+  boolean isStopping();
 
   /** @return the HLog for a particular region. Pass null for getting the
    * default (common) WAL */
-  public HLog getWAL(HRegionInfo regionInfo) throws IOException;
+  HLog getWAL(HRegionInfo regionInfo) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * @return Implementation of {@link CompactionRequestor} or null.
    */
-  public CompactionRequestor getCompactionRequester();
+  CompactionRequestor getCompactionRequester();
 
   /**
    * @return Implementation of {@link FlushRequester} or null.
    */
-  public FlushRequester getFlushRequester();
+  FlushRequester getFlushRequester();
 
   /**
    * @return the RegionServerAccounting for this Region Server
    */
-  public RegionServerAccounting getRegionServerAccounting();
+  RegionServerAccounting getRegionServerAccounting();
 
   /**
    * @return RegionServer's instance of {@link TableLockManager}
    */
-  public TableLockManager getTableLockManager();
+  TableLockManager getTableLockManager();
 
   /**
    * Tasks to perform after region open to complete deploy of region on
@@ -75,42 +75,42 @@ public interface RegionServerServices extends OnlineRegions, FavoredNodesForRegi
    * @throws KeeperException
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public void postOpenDeployTasks(final HRegion r, final CatalogTracker ct)
+  void postOpenDeployTasks(final HRegion r, final CatalogTracker ct)
   throws KeeperException, IOException;
 
   /**
    * Returns a reference to the region server's RPC server
    */
-  public RpcServerInterface getRpcServer();
+  RpcServerInterface getRpcServer();
 
   /**
    * Get the regions that are currently being opened or closed in the RS
    * @return map of regions in transition in this RS
    */
-  public ConcurrentMap<byte[], Boolean> getRegionsInTransitionInRS();
+  ConcurrentMap<byte[], Boolean> getRegionsInTransitionInRS();
 
   /**
    * @return Return the FileSystem object used by the regionserver
    */
-  public FileSystem getFileSystem();
+  FileSystem getFileSystem();
 
   /**
    * @return The RegionServer's "Leases" service
    */
-  public Leases getLeases();
+  Leases getLeases();
 
   /**
    * @return hbase executor service
    */
-  public ExecutorService getExecutorService();
+  ExecutorService getExecutorService();
 
   /**
    * @return The RegionServer's CatalogTracker
    */
-  public CatalogTracker getCatalogTracker();
+  CatalogTracker getCatalogTracker();
 
   /**
    * @return set of recovering regions on the hosting region server
    */
-  public Map<String, HRegion> getRecoveringRegions();
+  Map<String, HRegion> getRecoveringRegions();
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/ReplicationService.java

@@ -38,17 +38,18 @@ public interface ReplicationService {
    * Initializes the replication service object.
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public void initialize(Server rs, FileSystem fs, Path logdir,
+  void initialize(
-                         Path oldLogDir) throws IOException;
+    Server rs, FileSystem fs, Path logdir, Path oldLogDir
+  ) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Start replication services.
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public void startReplicationService() throws IOException;
+  void startReplicationService() throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Stops replication service.
    */
-  public void stopReplicationService();
+  void stopReplicationService();
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/ReplicationSinkService.java

@@ -38,5 +38,5 @@ public interface ReplicationSinkService extends ReplicationService {
    * @param cells Cells that the WALEntries refer to (if cells is non-null)
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public void replicateLogEntries(List<WALEntry> entries, CellScanner cells) throws IOException;
+  void replicateLogEntries(List<WALEntry> entries, CellScanner cells) throws IOException;
-}
+}

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/ReplicationSourceService.java

@@ -32,5 +32,5 @@ public interface ReplicationSourceService extends ReplicationService {
    * Returns a WALObserver for the service. This is needed to 
    * observe log rolls and log archival events.
    */
-  public WALActionsListener getWALActionsListener();
+  WALActionsListener getWALActionsListener();
-}
+}

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/SplitLogWorker.java

@@ -640,13 +640,13 @@ public class SplitLogWorker extends ZooKeeperListener implements Runnable {
    * is better to have workers prepare the task and then have the
    * {@link SplitLogManager} commit the work in SplitLogManager.TaskFinisher
    */
-  static public interface TaskExecutor {
+  public interface TaskExecutor {
-    static public enum Status {
+    enum Status {
       DONE(),
       ERR(),
       RESIGNED(),
       PREEMPTED()
     }
-    public Status exec(String name, CancelableProgressable p);
+    Status exec(String name, CancelableProgressable p);
   }
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/Store.java

@@ -50,14 +50,13 @@ public interface Store extends HeapSize, StoreConfigInformation {
 
   /* The default priority for user-specified compaction requests.
    * The user gets top priority unless we have blocking compactions. (Pri <= 0)
-   */
+   */ int PRIORITY_USER = 1;
-  public static final int PRIORITY_USER = 1;
+  int NO_PRIORITY = Integer.MIN_VALUE;
-  public static final int NO_PRIORITY = Integer.MIN_VALUE;
 
   // General Accessors
-  public KeyValue.KVComparator getComparator();
+  KeyValue.KVComparator getComparator();
 
-  public Collection<StoreFile> getStorefiles();
+  Collection<StoreFile> getStorefiles();
 
   /**
    * Close all the readers We don't need to worry about subsequent requests because the HRegion
@@ -65,7 +64,7 @@ public interface Store extends HeapSize, StoreConfigInformation {
    * @return the {@link StoreFile StoreFiles} that were previously being used.
    * @throws IOException on failure
    */
-  public Collection<StoreFile> close() throws IOException;
+  Collection<StoreFile> close() throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Return a scanner for both the memstore and the HStore files. Assumes we are not in a
@@ -75,7 +74,7 @@ public interface Store extends HeapSize, StoreConfigInformation {
    * @return a scanner over the current key values
    * @throws IOException on failure
    */
-  public KeyValueScanner getScanner(Scan scan, final NavigableSet<byte[]> targetCols)
+  KeyValueScanner getScanner(Scan scan, final NavigableSet<byte[]> targetCols)
       throws IOException;
 
   /**
@@ -89,11 +88,16 @@ public interface Store extends HeapSize, StoreConfigInformation {
    * @param stopRow
    * @return all scanners for this store
    */
-  public List<KeyValueScanner> getScanners(boolean cacheBlocks,
+  List<KeyValueScanner> getScanners(
-      boolean isGet, boolean isCompaction, ScanQueryMatcher matcher, byte[] startRow,
+    boolean cacheBlocks,
-      byte[] stopRow) throws IOException;
+    boolean isGet,
+    boolean isCompaction,
+    ScanQueryMatcher matcher,
+    byte[] startRow,
+    byte[] stopRow
+  ) throws IOException;
 
-  public ScanInfo getScanInfo();
+  ScanInfo getScanInfo();
 
   /**
    * Adds or replaces the specified KeyValues.
@@ -108,14 +112,14 @@ public interface Store extends HeapSize, StoreConfigInformation {
    * @return memstore size delta
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public long upsert(Iterable<? extends Cell> cells, long readpoint) throws IOException;
+  long upsert(Iterable<? extends Cell> cells, long readpoint) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Adds a value to the memstore
    * @param kv
    * @return memstore size delta
    */
-  public long add(KeyValue kv);
+  long add(KeyValue kv);
 
   /**
    * When was the last edit done in the memstore
@@ -127,7 +131,7 @@ public interface Store extends HeapSize, StoreConfigInformation {
    * key & memstoreTS value of the kv parameter.
    * @param kv
    */
-  public void rollback(final KeyValue kv);
+  void rollback(final KeyValue kv);
 
   /**
    * Find the key that matches <i>row</i> exactly, or the one that immediately precedes it. WARNING:
@@ -141,9 +145,9 @@ public interface Store extends HeapSize, StoreConfigInformation {
    * @return Found keyvalue or null if none found.
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public KeyValue getRowKeyAtOrBefore(final byte[] row) throws IOException;
+  KeyValue getRowKeyAtOrBefore(final byte[] row) throws IOException;
 
-  public FileSystem getFileSystem();
+  FileSystem getFileSystem();
 
   /*
    * @param maxKeyCount
@@ -152,44 +156,48 @@ public interface Store extends HeapSize, StoreConfigInformation {
    * @param includeMVCCReadpoint whether we should out the MVCC readpoint
    * @return Writer for a new StoreFile in the tmp dir.
    */
-  public StoreFile.Writer createWriterInTmp(long maxKeyCount, Compression.Algorithm compression,
+  StoreFile.Writer createWriterInTmp(
-      boolean isCompaction, boolean includeMVCCReadpoint) throws IOException;
+    long maxKeyCount,
+    Compression.Algorithm compression,
+    boolean isCompaction,
+    boolean includeMVCCReadpoint
+  ) throws IOException;
 
   // Compaction oriented methods
 
-  public boolean throttleCompaction(long compactionSize);
+  boolean throttleCompaction(long compactionSize);
 
   /**
    * getter for CompactionProgress object
    * @return CompactionProgress object; can be null
    */
-  public CompactionProgress getCompactionProgress();
+  CompactionProgress getCompactionProgress();
 
-  public CompactionContext requestCompaction() throws IOException;
+  CompactionContext requestCompaction() throws IOException;
 
-  public CompactionContext requestCompaction(int priority, CompactionRequest baseRequest)
+  CompactionContext requestCompaction(int priority, CompactionRequest baseRequest)
       throws IOException;
 
-  public void cancelRequestedCompaction(CompactionContext compaction);
+  void cancelRequestedCompaction(CompactionContext compaction);
 
-  public List<StoreFile> compact(CompactionContext compaction) throws IOException;
+  List<StoreFile> compact(CompactionContext compaction) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * @return true if we should run a major compaction.
    */
-  public boolean isMajorCompaction() throws IOException;
+  boolean isMajorCompaction() throws IOException;
 
-  public void triggerMajorCompaction();
+  void triggerMajorCompaction();
 
   /**
    * See if there's too much store files in this store
    * @return true if number of store files is greater than the number defined in minFilesToCompact
    */
-  public boolean needsCompaction();
+  boolean needsCompaction();
 
-  public int getCompactPriority();
+  int getCompactPriority();
 
-  public StoreFlushContext createFlushContext(long cacheFlushId);
+  StoreFlushContext createFlushContext(long cacheFlushId);
 
   /**
    * Call to complete a compaction. Its for the case where we find in the WAL a compaction
@@ -197,18 +205,18 @@ public interface Store extends HeapSize, StoreConfigInformation {
    * See HBASE-2331.
    * @param compaction
    */
-  public void completeCompactionMarker(CompactionDescriptor compaction)
+  void completeCompactionMarker(CompactionDescriptor compaction)
       throws IOException;
 
   // Split oriented methods
 
-  public boolean canSplit();
+  boolean canSplit();
 
   /**
    * Determines if Store should be split
    * @return byte[] if store should be split, null otherwise.
    */
-  public byte[] getSplitPoint();
+  byte[] getSplitPoint();
 
   // Bulk Load methods
 
@@ -216,7 +224,7 @@ public interface Store extends HeapSize, StoreConfigInformation {
    * This throws a WrongRegionException if the HFile does not fit in this region, or an
    * InvalidHFileException if the HFile is not valid.
    */
-  public void assertBulkLoadHFileOk(Path srcPath) throws IOException;
+  void assertBulkLoadHFileOk(Path srcPath) throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * This method should only be called from HRegion. It is assumed that the ranges of values in the
@@ -225,7 +233,7 @@ public interface Store extends HeapSize, StoreConfigInformation {
    * @param srcPathStr
    * @param sequenceId sequence Id associated with the HFile
    */
-  public void bulkLoadHFile(String srcPathStr, long sequenceId) throws IOException;
+  void bulkLoadHFile(String srcPathStr, long sequenceId) throws IOException;
 
   // General accessors into the state of the store
   // TODO abstract some of this out into a metrics class
@@ -233,50 +241,50 @@ public interface Store extends HeapSize, StoreConfigInformation {
   /**
    * @return <tt>true</tt> if the store has any underlying reference files to older HFiles
    */
-  public boolean hasReferences();
+  boolean hasReferences();
 
   /**
    * @return The size of this store's memstore, in bytes
    */
-  public long getMemStoreSize();
+  long getMemStoreSize();
 
-  public HColumnDescriptor getFamily();
+  HColumnDescriptor getFamily();
 
   /**
    * @return The maximum memstoreTS in all store files.
    */
-  public long getMaxMemstoreTS();
+  long getMaxMemstoreTS();
 
   /**
    * @return the data block encoder
    */
-  public HFileDataBlockEncoder getDataBlockEncoder();
+  HFileDataBlockEncoder getDataBlockEncoder();
 
   /** @return aggregate size of all HStores used in the last compaction */
-  public long getLastCompactSize();
+  long getLastCompactSize();
 
   /** @return aggregate size of HStore */
-  public long getSize();
+  long getSize();
 
   /**
    * @return Count of store files
    */
-  public int getStorefilesCount();
+  int getStorefilesCount();
 
   /**
    * @return The size of the store files, in bytes, uncompressed.
    */
-  public long getStoreSizeUncompressed();
+  long getStoreSizeUncompressed();
 
   /**
    * @return The size of the store files, in bytes.
    */
-  public long getStorefilesSize();
+  long getStorefilesSize();
 
   /**
    * @return The size of the store file indexes, in bytes.
    */
-  public long getStorefilesIndexSize();
+  long getStorefilesIndexSize();
 
   /**
    * Returns the total size of all index blocks in the data block indexes, including the root level,
@@ -284,14 +292,14 @@ public interface Store extends HeapSize, StoreConfigInformation {
    * single-level indexes.
    * @return the total size of block indexes in the store
    */
-  public long getTotalStaticIndexSize();
+  long getTotalStaticIndexSize();
 
   /**
    * Returns the total byte size of all Bloom filter bit arrays. For compound Bloom filters even the
    * Bloom blocks currently not loaded into the block cache are counted.
    * @return the total size of all Bloom filters in the store
    */
-  public long getTotalStaticBloomSize();
+  long getTotalStaticBloomSize();
 
   // Test-helper methods
 
@@ -299,40 +307,40 @@ public interface Store extends HeapSize, StoreConfigInformation {
    * Used for tests.
    * @return cache configuration for this Store.
    */
-  public CacheConfig getCacheConfig();
+  CacheConfig getCacheConfig();
 
   /**
    * @return the parent region info hosting this store
    */
-  public HRegionInfo getRegionInfo();
+  HRegionInfo getRegionInfo();
 
-  public RegionCoprocessorHost getCoprocessorHost();
+  RegionCoprocessorHost getCoprocessorHost();
 
-  public boolean areWritesEnabled();
+  boolean areWritesEnabled();
 
   /**
    * @return The smallest mvcc readPoint across all the scanners in this
    * region. Writes older than this readPoint, are included  in every
    * read operation.
    */
-  public long getSmallestReadPoint();
+  long getSmallestReadPoint();
 
-  public String getColumnFamilyName();
+  String getColumnFamilyName();
 
-  public String getTableName();
+  String getTableName();
 
   /*
    * @param o Observer who wants to know about changes in set of Readers
    */
-  public void addChangedReaderObserver(ChangedReadersObserver o);
+  void addChangedReaderObserver(ChangedReadersObserver o);
 
   /*
    * @param o Observer no longer interested in changes in set of Readers.
    */
-  public void deleteChangedReaderObserver(ChangedReadersObserver o);
+  void deleteChangedReaderObserver(ChangedReadersObserver o);
 
   /**
    * @return Whether this store has too many store files.
    */
-  public boolean hasTooManyStoreFiles();
+  boolean hasTooManyStoreFiles();
 }