Codereview needed for #6929479

Christos Zoulas christos at zoulas.com
Sun Feb 28 02:01:57 UTC 2010


On Feb 27,  5:49pm, martinrb at google.com (Martin Buchholz) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Codereview needed for #6929479

| On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:09, Lance J. Andersen <Lance.Andersen at sun.com> wrote:
| > Going forward, should we be using sun or oracle in the property names?
| 
| It is impractical to stamp out the "sun" in the API,
| even though it's "private".
| 
| There are too many references to sun.* in third party code to
| consider a massive rename, and the system properties
| need to match the class hierarchy.  I urge Oracle to simply keep
| the sun.* and com.sun.* conventions.

Not only I would like to chime in here, but I would also like to add
that we really should not start a new oracle.* and com.oracle.* hierarchies
because their only worth is vanity, and it will only make things more
difficult to organize and find.

christos



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