Yea-- I had missed this thread. Sorry for the duplication. I have now looked at this web page and I like the proposed concept.
Dan Lydick > [Original Message] > From: Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org> > Date: 3/19/06 8:31:28 PM > Subject: Re: [classlib] Java namespace in org.apache.harmony > > Dan, > > We agreed to use org.apache.harmony as our package name prefixes, and > even refined that with the following guidelines in the class library: > http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/subcomponents/classlibrary/pkgnaming.htm l > > Regards, > Tim > > Dan Lydick wrote: > > I encourage the use of our name space as "org.apache.harmony" > > for three reasons to start out with: (1) simplicity of identification > > by _any_ interested party anywhere, and (2) this is the requested > > format in Java development guidelines as they have been developed > > over the life of the Java language, thus it is the conventional wisdom > > as we now understand it, and-- most of all-- (3) if the ASF is going > > to do this new implementation of Java, any significant deviation from > > this format, thus colliding with reason #1 and #2 above, will surely > > be seen by the industry as a departure from Java standards, thus > > very likely lowering the credibility of the Harmony project in the > > eyes of the industry overall, meaning lowering the potential for > > long-term success of the Harmony project from the time such a > > departure is agreed upon. Not to be a nay-sayer, but I think that > > this standard, being as well entrenched as it is, has some merits to > > it, both intrinsically by its domain name style of structure and > > popularly because the standard is long simce in place at this time. > > Not that I am opposed to other ideas, but I think this one should > > stay with us. > > > > Dan Lydick > > > > > >> [Original Message] > >> From: Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: <harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org> > >> Date: 1/18/06 5:42:57 AM > >> Subject: [classlib] Java namespace in org.apache.harmony > >> > >> I changed thread name to keep this issue from getting buried in the > >> security2 discussion (and get it out of there...) I also added > >> [classlib] in the subject to help people sort things out... I plan to > >> use [classlib:security2] for more disucssion about my sec2 problems... > >> > >> "org.apache.harmony" == o.a.h for short is the root of our project java > >> namespace. > >> > >> Should we consider > >> > >> o.a.h.classlib > >> > >> for the classlibrary work? We have no reason to now, and the extremos > >> will tell us not to do it unless we need it, but I can easily imagine us > >> needing it, and it will be less of a royal PITA to do later.... > >> > >> geir > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > IBM Java technology centre, UK.
