Excellent! Eclipse is sounding better every day, especially if it
helps around Java's refactoring deficiencies. Thanks for the pointer.
Ian
On 01/09/2006, at 10:23 AM, Bill Stackhouse wrote:
No matter how careful you are when you start, there is no way to
truly know what the final package tree will look like. This is
exactly where a Java IDE like Eclipse earns its keep. It moves the
source, changes the package name, changes all the import references
that need to be changed, even creates any new directories that are
needed. So cool.
Also remember how difficult it is to rename classes, or method and
member names when you have 12 different things called the same
thing? Well again Eclipse does the 'right' thing since it knows
which name is which rather than just doing a straight text replace.
Bill
At 9:47 AM +1000 9/1/06, Ian Joyner wrote:
I think you are best off trying to use this convention and if you
can use it from the start well and good. However, as Niklaus Wirth
observed, we end up growing systems rather than designing the
finished product. So most things get refactored. A common case is
where do you put all those little utility routines you get. I
decided to refactor some of this last week, only to find Java's
package mechanism is really brittle. You have to revisit every
file's imports (rather than this being done in a meta place with
overall project information).
So I started out trying to do the perfect package scheme and ended
up with a compromise just to keep things working, although this
was not without pain of classes and methods not found - not at
compile time, but at run time. Ugh!
Ian
On 31/08/2006, at 6:02 AM, bsd5tu1 wrote:
How many out there really adhere to the class naming convention
(example com.mycompany.myproduct.XXX.java) for actual products?
Why or why not?
I've always disliked using packages when possible because to me
it seems Java ties the package with a directory structure too
tightly. Sometimes I like to arrange things in order to just
"tidy up" things but doing so often ends up causing packaging
problems.
Just curious,
Thanks in advance.
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