Since it's Friday and I'm just about to start a new project, I thought
I'd ask everyone what they think about something that's always bugged me.
Package names in Java. Why do we all have com.blah.blah or
org.apache.stuff.xxx instead of just plain blah.blah.blah and
apache.stuff.xxx?
What really got me on my last project was changing from one organisation
to another, the project packages had to be renamed from uk.co.bbb to
com.siemans and we actually made it all the more pointless by discussing
whether it should be com.siemenz or de.siemenz.
I'd love to drop the whole top-level domain but why on earth is it there
in the first place?
My new project is for a charity ecoworks with the top-level domain .eu
and they might even purchase ecoworks.org too, and I don't want to mess
around, so why can't I just have my packages like this:
ecoworks.forum.etc
ecoworks.newsfeed.etc
instead of eu.ecoworks or eu.ecoworks or whatever.
And why isn't it just plain apache.struts or apache.tomcat? It's not as
though there's ever going to be a mix up with code like com.apache. - or
is there?
And even if there is, why is the mix-up possibility so important when it
comes to package names, when it's not considered when it comes to jar
naming conventions. If there ever was a com.apache.struts, what would
they call their jar? Would they have to use com_struts-1.2.7.jar
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