[522] in java-interest
Re: Some questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Douglas Barnes)
Tue Jun 27 19:23:49 1995
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 15:54:45 -0800
To: beethovn@ai.mit.edu, java-interest@java.sun.com
From: cman@communities.com (Douglas Barnes)
Ian Eslick says:
>
>Say, for example, if I were to define a package like, 'nets' with some
>classes that dealt with graph matching engines that operate on package
>classes describing semantic nets. I have a server and download my
>applet to a client who locally has defined a different 'nets' package
>for dealing with, say a tennis game they were writing. How to resolve
>this?
>
The Java documentation suggests a naming convention for packages
of <company>.<packagename>.... This reduces the problem to one of
company name collision, which is substantially less likely. As
Java becomes more successful, Sun or some third party could undertake
the registration of unique abbreviations for companies or other
entities that produce Java packages. Just your basic, garden-variety,
global namespace problem.
Note that Amanda and I will be hewing to this in the next release
of JCrypt, which will likely be something like dna.jcrypt.* instead
of just crypt.* (dna == Doug 'n' Amanda :-)
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