Indentation in java

Question

Is indentation compulsory in java. As i am learning the if statement in java , I found that whether there is an indent or not, in the else statement the program works fine.

Answer 1

No indentation is not nessesary, it's just there to make the code look more better and easily understandable.

Answer 2

Java uses a blocks making by { } curly braces. There is no need Indentation .but adding Indentation will make code more readable..

Answer 3

Not compulsory. But it looks good when you use indentation.

1.
public void method()
{
if(condition)
{
System.out.print("if");
}
else{
System.out.print("else");
}
}

2.
public void method() {
if (condition) {
System.out.print("if");
} else {
System.out.print("else");
}
}

Which looks better?