diff --git a/artifactbroker/plugins/forwarding-plugins/src/main/java/org/onap/policy/distribution/forwarding/xacml/pdp/XacmlPdpArtifactForwarder.java b/artifactbroker/plugins/forwarding-plugins/src/main/java/org/onap/policy/distribution/forwarding/xacml/pdp/XacmlPdpArtifactForwarder.java
index 906827c..3fe6dd8 100644
--- a/artifactbroker/plugins/forwarding-plugins/src/main/java/org/onap/policy/distribution/forwarding/xacml/pdp/XacmlPdpArtifactForwarder.java
+++ b/artifactbroker/plugins/forwarding-plugins/src/main/java/org/onap/policy/distribution/forwarding/xacml/pdp/XacmlPdpArtifactForwarder.java
@@ -42,10 +42,10 @@
 import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
 import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
 import org.apache.http.entity.FileEntity;
+import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
 import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair;
-import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
 import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
 
 import org.onap.policy.common.logging.flexlogger.FlexLogger;
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@
 import org.onap.policy.common.parameters.ParameterService;
 import org.onap.policy.distribution.forwarding.ArtifactForwarder;
 import org.onap.policy.distribution.forwarding.xacml.pdp.adapters.XacmlPdpOptimizationPolicyAdapter;
-import org.onap.policy.distribution.model.PolicyInput;
 import org.onap.policy.distribution.model.CloudArtifact;
+import org.onap.policy.distribution.model.PolicyInput;
 import org.onap.policy.distribution.model.VfModuleModel;
 import org.onap.sdc.api.notification.IArtifactInfo;
 import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
@@ -145,8 +145,8 @@
         boolean found = false;
 
         for (String artifact: artifacts) {
-            if ( artifactMap.get(artifact) != null && 
-                artifactMap.get(artifact).getArtifactType().equals("CLOUD_TECHNOLOGY_SPECIFIC_ARTIFACT")) {
+            if ( artifactMap.get(artifact) != null 
+                && artifactMap.get(artifact).getArtifactType().equals("CLOUD_TECHNOLOGY_SPECIFIC_ARTIFACT")) {
                 cloudArtifact = artifactMap.get(artifact);
                 cloudUuid = cloudArtifact.getArtifactUUID();
                 found = true;
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@
                 System.out.println("result2") ;
                 String result = EntityUtils.toString(closeableHttpResponse.getEntity());
                 System.out.println("result = {}" + result);
-                System.out.println("status  = {}"+ closeableHttpResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode());
+                System.out.println("status  = {}" + closeableHttpResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode());
                 if ( closeableHttpResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() != 200 ) {
                     System.out.println("exception: ret= " + closeableHttpResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode());
                 } else {
diff --git a/artifactbroker/plugins/forwarding-plugins/src/test/java/org/onap/policy/distribution/forwarding/xacml/pdp/engine/XacmlPdpArtifactForwarderTest.java b/artifactbroker/plugins/forwarding-plugins/src/test/java/org/onap/policy/distribution/forwarding/xacml/pdp/engine/XacmlPdpArtifactForwarderTest.java
index ca2fd0d..bad34c5 100644
--- a/artifactbroker/plugins/forwarding-plugins/src/test/java/org/onap/policy/distribution/forwarding/xacml/pdp/engine/XacmlPdpArtifactForwarderTest.java
+++ b/artifactbroker/plugins/forwarding-plugins/src/test/java/org/onap/policy/distribution/forwarding/xacml/pdp/engine/XacmlPdpArtifactForwarderTest.java
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
 
 package org.onap.policy.distribution.forwarding.xacml.pdp.engine;
 
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
 import static org.mockito.Matchers.anyObject;
 import static org.mockito.Matchers.argThat;
 import static org.mockito.Matchers.eq;
@@ -28,14 +30,11 @@
 import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;
 import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;
 
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
-import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
-
 import com.google.gson.Gson;
 import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;
 
-import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.lang.reflect.Field;
 import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;
 import java.lang.reflect.Type;
@@ -49,28 +48,28 @@
 import java.util.List;
 import javax.ws.rs.client.Entity;
 import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
+
+import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
+import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
+import org.apache.http.HttpVersion;
+import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
+import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
+import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
+import org.apache.http.message.BasicStatusLine;
 import org.hamcrest.BaseMatcher;
 import org.hamcrest.Description;
 import org.junit.BeforeClass;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
-import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
-import org.apache.http.HttpVersion;
-import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
-import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
-import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
-import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
-import org.apache.http.message.BasicStatusLine;
-
 import org.onap.policy.common.endpoints.event.comm.bus.internal.BusTopicParams;
 import org.onap.policy.common.parameters.ParameterGroup;
 import org.onap.policy.common.parameters.ParameterService;
 import org.onap.policy.distribution.forwarding.xacml.pdp.XacmlPdpArtifactForwarder;
 import org.onap.policy.distribution.forwarding.xacml.pdp.XacmlPdpArtifactForwarderParameterGroup.XacmlPdpArtifactForwarderParameterGroupBuilder;
 import org.onap.policy.distribution.main.PolicyDistributionException;
+import org.onap.policy.distribution.model.CloudArtifact;
 import org.onap.policy.distribution.model.GsonUtil;
 import org.onap.policy.distribution.model.Policy;
-import org.onap.policy.distribution.model.CloudArtifact;
 import org.onap.policy.distribution.model.VfModuleModel;
 
 import org.onap.sdc.api.notification.IArtifactInfo;
@@ -129,7 +128,7 @@
             String data = new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get("src/test/resource/modules.json")));
             Type type = new TypeToken<ArrayList<VfModuleModel>>() {}.getType();
             Gson gson = new Gson();
-            vfModuleModels= gson.fromJson(data, type);
+            vfModuleModels = gson.fromJson(data, type);
                 
             //vfModuleModels= GsonUtil.parseJsonArrayWithGson(data, VfModuleModel.class);
             assertEquals(4, vfModuleModels.size());
@@ -187,6 +186,7 @@
         private IArtifactInfo generatedArtifact;
         private List<String> relatedArtifacts;
         private List<IArtifactInfo> relatedArtifactsInfo;
+
         ArtifactInfoImpl(){}
         
         private ArtifactInfoImpl(IArtifactInfo iArtifactInfo){
@@ -207,9 +207,9 @@
         
         private List<String> fillRelatedArtifactsUUID(List<IArtifactInfo> relatedArtifactsInfo) {
             List<String> relatedArtifactsUUID = null;
-            if( relatedArtifactsInfo != null && !relatedArtifactsInfo.isEmpty()){
+            if ( relatedArtifactsInfo != null && !relatedArtifactsInfo.isEmpty()) {
                 relatedArtifactsUUID = new ArrayList<>();
-                for(IArtifactInfo curr: relatedArtifactsInfo){
+                for (IArtifactInfo curr: relatedArtifactsInfo) {
                     relatedArtifactsUUID.add(curr.getArtifactUUID());
                 }
             }
diff --git a/artifactbroker/plugins/reception-plugins/src/main/java/org/onap/policy/distribution/reception/handling/sdc/SdcReceptionHandler.java b/artifactbroker/plugins/reception-plugins/src/main/java/org/onap/policy/distribution/reception/handling/sdc/SdcReceptionHandler.java
index 6b8f3b6..37fb314 100644
--- a/artifactbroker/plugins/reception-plugins/src/main/java/org/onap/policy/distribution/reception/handling/sdc/SdcReceptionHandler.java
+++ b/artifactbroker/plugins/reception-plugins/src/main/java/org/onap/policy/distribution/reception/handling/sdc/SdcReceptionHandler.java
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@
 import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.nio.file.Paths;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.List;
 import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
 
 import org.onap.policy.common.logging.flexlogger.FlexLogger;
 import org.onap.policy.common.logging.flexlogger.Logger;
@@ -228,13 +228,13 @@
         for (final IArtifactInfo artifact : resource.getArtifacts()) {
             artifactMap.put(artifact.getArtifactUUID(),artifact);
 
-             //extract the artifactlist and write them into MongoDB
+            //extract the artifactlist and write them into MongoDB
             if (artifact.getArtifactType().equals("VF_MODULES_METADATA")) {
                 try {
                     final IDistributionClientDownloadResult resultArtifact =
                             downloadTheArtifact(artifact,notificationData);
                     vfArtifactData = new String(resultArtifact.getArtifactPayload());
-                    vfModuleModels= GsonUtil.parseJsonArrayWithGson(vfArtifactData,VfModuleModel.class);
+                    vfModuleModels = GsonUtil.parseJsonArrayWithGson(vfArtifactData,VfModuleModel.class);
                 } catch (final ArtifactDownloadException exp) {
                     LOGGER.error("Failed to process csar service artifacts ", exp);
                     artifactsProcessedSuccessfully = false;
@@ -256,10 +256,12 @@
                 Path temp = Paths.get("/data",vfModule.getVfModuleModelCustomizationUUID());
                 path = Files.createDirectory(temp);//create UUID path
                 //store the value to vfmodule-meta.json
-                String filePath = Paths.get("/data",vfModule.getVfModuleModelCustomizationUUID(),"vfmodule-meta.json").toString();
+                String filePath = Paths.get("/data",vfModule.getVfModuleModelCustomizationUUID(),
+                    "vfmodule-meta.json").toString();
                 writeFileByFileWriter(filePath, vfArtifactData);
                 //store the service level info to serivce-meta.json
-                filePath = Paths.get("/data",vfModule.getVfModuleModelCustomizationUUID(),"service-meta.json").toString();
+                filePath = Paths.get("/data",vfModule.getVfModuleModelCustomizationUUID(),
+                    "service-meta.json").toString();
                 writeFileByFileWriter(filePath, notificationData.toString());
             } catch (final IOException exp) {
                 LOGGER.error("Failed to create  directory artifact file", exp);
@@ -336,9 +338,13 @@
     private static void writeFileByFileWriter(String filePath, String content) throws IOException {
         File file = new File(filePath);
         synchronized (file) {
-            FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(filePath);
-            fw.write(content);
-            fw.close();
+            try {
+                FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(filePath);
+                fw.write(content);
+                fw.close();
+            } catch (final IOException exp) {
+                LOGGER.error("Failed to write File by File Writer ", exp);
+            }
         }
     }
     /**