Thanks Martin. I've been trying to keep up with all the commits coming in but 
there are so many of them ;-) I like the naming convention you chose. I think 
it *does* make sense to go with "iso" as we are very much interested in 
maintaining the highest degree of standardization.

Adam

On Dec 12, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Martin Desruisseaux wrote:

> Hello all
> 
> I went ahead and renamed the "org.apache.sis.util.type"package as 
> "org.apache.sis.util.iso". Will not totally true, maybe being 80% true (or 
> even 95% true if we consider that InternationalString is similar in purpose 
> to <gmd:textGroup> in ISO 19139) is close enough...
> 
>    Thanks for feedbacks,
> 
>        Martin
> 
> 
> 
> Le 09/12/12 06:04, Adam Estrada a écrit :
>> Do you think changing it to something more specific like "utilitytype" or 
>> "utiltype" would make more sense? I suppose that sis/util/type kind of 
>> knocks that out but still...
>> 
>> Just thinking out loud here.
>> Adam
>> 
>> On Dec 8, 2012, at 4:39 AM, Martin Desruisseaux wrote:
>>> The commits in the last few days included:
>>> 
>>> Implementations of interfaces derived from ISO 19103: AbstractName, 
>>> LocalName, ScopedName, MemberName, TypeName. Unfortunately, those objects 
>>> are not easy to understand, since the ISO 19103 specification is not very 
>>> explicit. But they appear in XML documents, so we have to support them in 
>>> some way... The package javadoc does it best for trying to explain them:
>>> 
>>> https://builds.apache.org/job/sis-jdk7/site/apidocs/org/apache/sis/util/type/package-summary.html
>>> 
>>> I'm uncomfortable with the "type" package name. The current content is more 
>>> about naming (indeed, the package name in Geotoolkit.org was "naming"), but 
>>> with the addition of Type, RecordType, RecordSchema and Record classes from 
>>> ISO 19103, the package starts looking a bit like the java.lang.Class and 
>>> Field architecture. I have been unable to find something better than "type" 
>>> for now, but I would still like to find a better none.
> 

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