Re: Package naming, disk organization

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>

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Thu, 04 Jul 2013 15:39:08 -0400

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On 7/2/2013 11:09 AM, Dave wrote:

On 07/01/2013 05:39 PM, Dave wrote:

I'm having fun with Java (really!), but the real-world use of packages
is driving me crazy. If I were a corp. with a web site I might have a
something like this: org.davesjava.firstlgproj for a package
specification. I guess the disk drive files would be something like:
home/org/davesjava/firstlgproj (I use Linux, so there are no '\').

However:
* I don't have a commercial organization (yet), so I would need
something else - but what? Would jsoft.davesjava.firstlgproj be ok? It
seems to work for one trial, but down the road...

* I read that Java programmers like to have a source path and a class
path on the hard drive, which makes sense. So how does that work for
package specifications? Would it be: src/jsoft/davesjava/firstlgproj
and class/jsoft/davesjava/firstlgproj ? Assuming so, would a package
specification of jsoft.davesjava.firstlgproj still be ok?

* There is a conflict between a simple file structure and a conventional
package specification. For example, I may like:
home/jsoft/src/firstlgproj and home/jsoft/class/firstljproj , but that
translates into jsoft.class.firstlgproj - not exactly to convention.

So, I'm looking for some suggestions from people that have been there
done that.

Fist, thanks for all of the insight! Based on what everyone has said,
and what I have read (Oracle, other online info), the plan is to:

1. Eventually get URL, but that will have to wait until a few other
shoes have dropped so I don't have to keep changing it (as was mentioned
by a few of you). Something I did not consider, but with the wave of
mergers of companies, I can see that this could be a real headache to
down-stream developers using my packages.

2. For now, use foo.dboland.<proj_name> as the URL.

I will say as many other - why not do it right from start
and follow the domain convention.

                                                     The disk
organization would then be (Linux):
     home/user/javadev/src/foo/dboland/<proj_name>
     home/user/javadev/class/foo/dboland/<proj_name>
The class path will be: home/user/javadev/class
And the package specification will be: foo.dboland.<proj_name>

You will find that:

home/user/javadev/<proj_name>/src/foo/dboland/<proj_name>
home/user/javadev/<proj_name>/bin/foo/dboland/<proj_name>

work better with both the common IDE's and some command
line tools.

Arne

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