shorter package names

Bryan Kearney bkearney at redhat.com
Tue Mar 30 13:59:43 UTC 2010


On 03/30/2010 09:52 AM, Adam Young wrote:
> On 03/30/2010 09:28 AM, Justin Harris wrote:
>> ----- "Bryan Kearney"<bkearney at redhat.com>   wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 03/29/2010 11:58 PM, Jesus M. Rodriguez wrote:
>>>
>>>> The backlog ( https://fedorahosted.org/candlepin/wiki/BrainBox )
>>>>
>>> has
>>>
>>>> an item #35 like to have shorter package names which look cool i.e.
>>>> org.candlepin.  This is quite an easy thing to do but should really
>>>>
>>> be
>>>
>>>> done before we make our first release. I'm ok with org.candlepin.
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>
>> Yeah I think the Java convention is that it is your url backwards (never really understood that), so
>> we should do org.candlepin if we are going to register candlepin.org.
>>
>
> The rationale is that you own your domain name, so the package names
> will be globally unique.  So com.candlepin and org.candlepin could
> co-exist in the same process space.


Yeah.. but it seems alot of the maven artifacts (commons, hibernate, 
etc) are moving away from the org.foo.bar hierarchy for the jars.

-- bk



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