Why, just the other day, I contemplated the same thing. In fact, I TOO named my OSS package blah.blah.blah. But wait, what would've happened if you and I had not only the same package structure, but also 2 classes with the same name e.g. blah.blah.blah.foo, and you decided to use my OSS?
I'm guessing that you haven't been using Java very long, because the issue of namespace collision was well discussed when 1.0 came out. Hopefully, you understand why you're suggestion is sil...er, not feasible. -Dennis Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/17/2005 07:46 AM Please respond to "Struts Users Mailing List" <user@struts.apache.org> To Struts Users Mailing List <user@struts.apache.org> cc Subject [OT] package naming nonsense 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
