Current name convention of class variable in CloudStack is prefixing variable
name with a '_', for example
Class SomeManagerImpl {
private long _myVar;
}
I know this is widely spread convention but I really think it's dated. First
time I saw it is in the famous book "Programming in Java Language", it helps
you to distinguish class variable and variable defined in function in PLAIN
text editor.
But nowadays everybody writing code in IDE like Eclipse and every IDE
highlights these variables in vivid color, there is no needs to use underscore
anymore.
And this convention has a significant disadvantage that is broken Java Bean
style. A Java bean is a class with setter/getter, I always use Eclipse's
shortcut "Alt+Shift+S
