The Geode/GemFire code base has never allowed declaring multiple fields or vars on single line:
private MemberVM locator, server1, server2; If spotless does NOT prevent this, then it's an oversight. Please do NOT do the above. If anyone feels strongly about changing the coding style to allow this, then please propose that here on list rather than just doing it because spotless happens to allow it. This is a bug in our spotless format. PS: if anyone knows how to change spotless to fix this, please do it! Thanks, Kirk