>From dictionary.com: con.ven.tion Pronunciation Key (kn-vnshn) n.
1) a. A formal meeting of members, representatives, or delegates, as of a political party, fraternal society, profession, or industry. b. The body of persons attending such an assembly: called the convention to order. 2) An agreement between states, sides, or military forces, especially an international agreement dealing with a specific subject, such as the treatment of prisoners of war. 3) General agreement on or acceptance of certain practices or attitudes: By convention, north is at the top of most maps. 4) A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom: the convention of shaking hands. 5) A widely used and accepted device or technique, as in drama, literature, or painting: the theatrical convention of the aside. >From (3) I could say it's kind of inertial... It's what everybody does. Of course, you could have a map with south on top(and that way Argentina would be on top... groovy). I think it's also because any EJB client will call EITHER on Local or Remote interfaces. That means if you decide to change from one to the other, it has been carefully planned so that you're spared of changing the JNDI names (constants which probably appear once or twice in your code) but of course you'll have to change all the reference types(all over the place).... Just kidding. I wonder how many of the others here follow the convention(in my last job, it was "ejb/XX<name>EJB" where XX could be E, SL, or SF. Juan Pablo Lorandi Chief Software Architect Code Foundry Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barberstown, Straffan, Co. Kildare, Ireland. Tel: +353-1-6012050 Fax: +353-1-6012051 Mobile: +353-86-2157900 www.codefoundry.com > -----Original Message----- > From: A mailing list for Enterprise JavaBeans development > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of David M. Karr > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:09 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: EJB JNDI name "<name>LocalHome" or > "<name>RemoteHome" inst. of "<name>Bean"? > > > Why is the convention for the JNDI name for an EJB > "<name>Bean" when you are always returning either the remote > or local home? Why haven't people ever called it > "<name>LocalHome" or "<name>RemoteHome"? In fact, if you > provide both a local and remote interface for a bean, you > have to give it different names, so calling it exactly what > it is seems like the right thing to do. > > -- =================================================================== > David M. Karr ; Java/J2EE/XML/Unix/C++ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ============================================================== > ============= > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". > For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > include in the body of the message "help". > =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
