Re: Extending the standard packages: is it legal?
"z-man" <nospam@nowhere.zz> wrote:
I feel it would be MUCH more elegant to place it
under its "natural" location (java.lang package), because relating it
strictly to my package root seems to insert an alien within my project
space. ...
So, is there any argument against my perception?
At the bottom line, is it contractually legal to extend the standard
J2SE packages with custom classes? May I incur into license violations
with Sun?
Adam Maass wrote:
Section 6.8.1 of the JLS (3rd edition) states that package names starting with 'java' are reserved by Sun.
(See http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/names.html#6.8.1 )
....
Might I suggest using 'java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException' instead
of your custom 'NotImplementedException'? (Generally, a developer ought
to be throwing exceptions that are already defined in the libraries
instead of writing their own -- when the exception makes sense!)
It also both stupid and unnecessary to add to java[x].*. You can extend, say,
Exception just fine in your own domain, no need to pretend to be in Sun's.
The stupid part is that to add to java[x].* is to declare that your code is
part of the Java language itself, which is anything but "natural". It would
render your code unusable outside your private world.
Are you really thinking that your class is part of the whole language? It
seems much more "natural" to think of your /custom/ class as part of /your/
package than Java's, eh? At least, that's how it would seem to a Java programmer.
--
Lew
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