Re: [FRIDAY] package naming nonsense

2005-06-17 Thread Emmanouil Batsis
Hubert Rabago wrote: The problem about unique names doesn't apply to JAR files because you can just rename them. The JAR names are irrelevant even for your classpath. The Java VM will load classes of which the full class name may be in conflict with another, unless you use something you c

Re: [FRIDAY] package naming nonsense

2005-06-17 Thread Ed Griebel
I've always heard that you java developers are such prima donnas ;-) OMG, and I thought I was on some bad projects!! Actually, add some cusses and bodily references and it's worthy of being a BileBlog. It sounds like a gold mine if you're a consultant, and a living nightmare if you're not billing

Re: [FRIDAY] package naming nonsense

2005-06-17 Thread Martin Gainty
*Smart* Alec et al- use \u0002d for the hyphen character HTH, Martin- - Original Message - From: "Adam Hardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 11:08 AM Subject: Re: [FRIDAY] package naming nonsense Hey! I h

Re: [FRIDAY] package naming nonsense

2005-06-17 Thread Dave Newton
Brian Lee wrote: Nope, this guy was from San Diego. He had many other pearls of wisdom. My favorite was when he designed a system that would dynamically load an EJB bean implementation at run-time. He wasn't using delegates or proxies or anything coded, he wanted to use deployment descriptors.

Re: [FRIDAY] package naming nonsense

2005-06-17 Thread Simon Chappell
Good point, perhaps com.evergreennohyphenbutperhapsalittlehypeinvestments would be clearer? On 6/17/05, Dave Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon Chappell wrote: > > >That's easy: > > > >com.evergreennohypheninvestments > > > > > Nah, that's too easily confused with my EvergreenNoHypeInves

Re: [FRIDAY] package naming nonsense

2005-06-17 Thread Dave Newton
Simon Chappell wrote: That's easy: com.evergreennohypheninvestments Nah, that's too easily confused with my EvergreenNoHypeInvestements.com site. Dave - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands

Re: [FRIDAY] package naming nonsense

2005-06-17 Thread Simon Chappell
17/06/05 15:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > By chance, was his name "Adam Hardy"? > > > > ;) > > > > > > > > > > > > "Brian Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 06/17/2005 09:52 AM > > Please re

Re: [FRIDAY] package naming nonsense

2005-06-17 Thread Adam Hardy
"Struts Users Mailing List" To [EMAIL PROTECTED], user@struts.apache.org cc Subject Re: [FRIDAY] package naming nonsense That's pretty much the reasoning I always got behing. This remings me of a funny time a consultant suggested removing all the "com." from o

Re: [FRIDAY] package naming nonsense

2005-06-17 Thread Brian Lee
a fun one to peer review. BAL From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Struts Users Mailing List" CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED],user@struts.apache.org Subject: Re: [FRIDAY] package naming nonsense Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:32:29 -0400 By chance, was his name "Adam Hardy"? ;) "Brian

Re: [FRIDAY] package naming nonsense

2005-06-17 Thread DGraham
By chance, was his name "Adam Hardy"? ;) "Brian Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/17/2005 09:52 AM Please respond to "Struts Users Mailing List" To [EMAIL PROTECTED], user@struts.apache.org cc Subject Re: [FRIDAY] package naming nonsense That'

Re: [FRIDAY] package naming nonsense

2005-06-17 Thread Brian Lee
Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [FRIDAY] package naming nonsense Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 07:09:24 -0500 IIRC, it really was the possibility of mix-ups that was the idea behind using TLDs for package names. At least with TLDs, one can reasonably assume that the groups sharing the same TLD could wor

Re: [FRIDAY] package naming nonsense

2005-06-17 Thread Hubert Rabago
IIRC, it really was the possibility of mix-ups that was the idea behind using TLDs for package names. At least with TLDs, one can reasonably assume that the groups sharing the same TLD could work out organizing package naming conventions amongst themselves. Without the convention, the IT groups o