diff --git a/build-config/pom.xml b/build-config/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ffa18cd1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build-config/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+
+ Copyright 2012-2013 Gunnar Morling (http://www.gunnarmorling.de/)
+ and/or other contributors as indicated by the @authors tag. See the
+ copyright.txt file in the distribution for a full listing of all
+ contributors.
+
+ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License.
+
+-->
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>org.mapstruct</groupId>
+        <artifactId>mapstruct-parent</artifactId>
+        <version>0.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <relativePath>../parent/pom.xml</relativePath>
+    </parent>
+
+    <artifactId>mapstruct-build-config</artifactId>
+    <packaging>jar</packaging>
+    <name>MapStruct Build Configuration</name>
+</project>
diff --git a/build-config/src/main/resources/build-config/checkstyle.xml b/build-config/src/main/resources/build-config/checkstyle.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3d58490e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build-config/src/main/resources/build-config/checkstyle.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,175 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
+    "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.2//EN"
+    "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_2.dtd">
+
+<!-- Based on sun_checks.xml from the CheckStyle distribution -->
+
+<module name="Checker">
+    <!--
+        If you set the basedir property below, then all reported file
+        names will be relative to the specified directory. See
+        http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/5.x/config.html#Checker
+
+        <property name="basedir" value="${basedir}"/>
+    -->
+
+    <!-- Checks that each Java package has a Javadoc file used for commenting. -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html#JavadocPackage       -->
+    <!--
+    <module name="JavadocPackage">
+      <property name="allowLegacy" value="true"/>
+    </module>
+    -->
+
+    <!-- Checks whether files end with a new line.                        -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#NewlineAtEndOfFile -->
+    <module name="NewlineAtEndOfFile"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks that property files contain the same keys.         -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#Translation -->
+    <module name="Translation"/>
+
+    <module name="FileLength"/>
+
+    <!-- Following interprets the header file as regular expressions. -->
+    <!-- <module name="RegexpHeader"/>                                -->
+
+    <module name="FileTabCharacter">
+        <property name="eachLine" value="true"/>
+    </module>
+
+    <module name="RegexpSingleline">
+        <!-- \s matches whitespace character, $ matches end of line. -->
+        <property name="format" value="\s+$"/>
+        <property name="message" value="Line has trailing spaces."/>
+    </module>
+
+    <module name="TreeWalker">
+
+        <property name="cacheFile" value="${checkstyle.cache.file}"/>
+
+        <!-- Checks for Javadoc comments.                     -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html -->
+        <!-- <module name="JavadocMethod"/> -->
+        <!-- <module name="JavadocType"/> -->
+        <!-- <module name="JavadocVariable"/> -->
+        <!-- <module name="JavadocStyle"/> -->
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Naming Conventions.                  -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_naming.html -->
+        <module name="ConstantName"/>
+        <module name="LocalFinalVariableName"/>
+        <module name="LocalVariableName"/>
+        <module name="MemberName"/>
+        <module name="MethodName"/>
+        <module name="PackageName"/>
+        <module name="ParameterName"/>
+        <module name="StaticVariableName"/>
+        <module name="TypeName"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Headers                                -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_header.html   -->
+        <!-- <module name="Header">                            -->
+            <!-- The follow property value demonstrates the ability     -->
+            <!-- to have access to ANT properties. In this case it uses -->
+            <!-- the ${basedir} property to allow Checkstyle to be run  -->
+            <!-- from any directory within a project. See property      -->
+            <!-- expansion,                                             -->
+            <!-- http://checkstyle.sf.net/config.html#properties        -->
+            <!-- <property                                              -->
+            <!--     name="headerFile"                                  -->
+            <!--     value="${basedir}/java.header"/>                   -->
+        <!-- </module> -->
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for imports                              -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_import.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidStarImport"/>
+        <module name="IllegalImport"/> <!-- defaults to sun.* packages -->
+        <module name="RedundantImport"/>
+        <module name="UnusedImports"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Size Violations.                    -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html -->
+        <module name="LineLength">
+            <property name="max" value="120"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="MethodLength"/>
+        <module name="ParameterNumber">
+            <property name="max" value="10"/>
+        </module>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for whitespace                               -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
+        <module name="EmptyForIteratorPad"/>
+        <module name="MethodParamPad"/>
+        <module name="NoWhitespaceAfter">
+            <property name="tokens" value="BNOT, DEC, DOT, INC, LNOT, UNARY_MINUS, UNARY_PLUS"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"/>
+        <!-- <module name="OperatorWrap"/> -->
+        <module name="ParenPad">
+            <property name="tokens" value="CTOR_CALL, METHOD_CALL, SUPER_CTOR_CALL"/>
+            <property name="option" value="space"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="TypecastParenPad"/>
+        <module name="WhitespaceAfter"/>
+        <module name="WhitespaceAround"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Modifier Checks                                    -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_modifiers.html -->
+        <module name="ModifierOrder"/>
+        <module name="RedundantModifier"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for blocks. You know, those {}'s         -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_blocks.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidNestedBlocks"/>
+        <module name="EmptyBlock"/>
+        <module name="LeftCurly"/>
+        <module name="NeedBraces"/>
+        <module name="RightCurly">
+            <property name="option" value="alone"/>
+        </module>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for common coding problems               -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_coding.html -->
+        <!-- <module name="AvoidInlineConditionals"/> -->
+        <module name="EmptyStatement"/>
+        <module name="EqualsHashCode"/>
+        <!-- <module name="HiddenField"/> -->
+        <module name="IllegalInstantiation"/>
+        <module name="InnerAssignment"/>
+        <!-- <module name="MagicNumber"/> -->
+        <module name="MissingSwitchDefault"/>
+        <module name="RedundantThrows"/>
+        <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression"/>
+        <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for class design                         -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_design.html -->
+        <!-- <module name="DesignForExtension"/> -->
+        <!-- <module name="FinalClass"/> -->
+        <module name="HideUtilityClassConstructor"/>
+        <module name="InterfaceIsType"/>
+        <module name="VisibilityModifier"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Miscellaneous other checks.                   -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html -->
+        <module name="ArrayTypeStyle"/>
+        <!-- <module name="FinalParameters"/> -->
+        <!-- <module name="TodoComment"/> -->
+        <module name="UpperEll"/>
+
+    </module>
+
+</module>
diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index 79703f38d..ace473810 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -47,4 +47,22 @@
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>check-style</id>
+                        <phase>verify</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>checkstyle</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/integrationtest/pom.xml b/integrationtest/pom.xml
index d8f773257..6458f054c 100644
--- a/integrationtest/pom.xml
+++ b/integrationtest/pom.xml
@@ -92,6 +92,19 @@
                     <skip>true</skip>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>check-style</id>
+                        <phase>verify</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>checkstyle</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/parent/pom.xml b/parent/pom.xml
index 6cae38d52..24a31fd3b 100644
--- a/parent/pom.xml
+++ b/parent/pom.xml
@@ -139,6 +139,25 @@
                     <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
                     <version>2.4</version>
                 </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>2.10</version>
+                    <configuration>
+                        <configLocation>build-config/checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
+                        <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
+                        <failsOnError>true</failsOnError>
+                        <violationSeverity>error</violationSeverity>
+                        <includeTestSourceDirectory>true</includeTestSourceDirectory>
+                    </configuration>
+                    <dependencies>
+                        <dependency>
+                            <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                            <artifactId>mapstruct-build-config</artifactId>
+                            <version>${project.version}</version>
+                        </dependency>
+                    </dependencies>
+                </plugin>
                 <plugin>
                     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                     <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
@@ -276,6 +295,7 @@
                     <strictCheck>true</strictCheck>
                     <excludes>
                         <exclude>.idea/**</exclude>
+                        <exclude>**/checkstyle.xml</exclude>
                         <exclude>copyright.txt</exclude>
                         <exclude>**/license.txt</exclude>
                         <exclude>**/mapstruct.xml</exclude>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 273a52389..7dc56a80e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 
     <modules>
         <module>parent</module>
+        <module>build-config</module>
         <module>core</module>
         <module>processor</module>
         <module>integrationtest</module>
diff --git a/processor/pom.xml b/processor/pom.xml
index eb4620386..4c560011c 100644
--- a/processor/pom.xml
+++ b/processor/pom.xml
@@ -136,6 +136,19 @@
                     </execution>
                 </executions>
             </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>check-style</id>
+                        <phase>verify</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>checkstyle</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>