Jigsaw @ JavaOne 2015

[Tim Boudreau]

+1 - people have been using . as a delimiter for maven groupId and
artifactId names for years, and I've never heard of someone's head
exploding as a result.

Similarly, NetBeans module system has used . as a delimiter since 2000, and
I don't recall ever seeing a message on the mailing lists (which I've been
on since '99 and am still active on) having a problem with it.

-Tim


On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:59 PM, David M. Lloyd <david.lloyd at redhat.com>
wrote:

> We've been (with JBoss Modules and thus our various application server
> offerings) using module name conventions that match package names for
> several years, and the number of people who have actually been confused by
> it to my knowledge is exactly zero.
>
> The actual problem is probably quite overstated.  People just don't seem
> to have trouble with this (nor do people generally seem to get confused by,
> for example, a C++ library name being the same as the root C++ namespace
> used by that library, to draw another language equivalent).
>
>
> On 10/28/2015 06:56 AM, Remi Forax wrote:
>
>> Hi Marrio,
>>
>> When creating a new application, using the prefix of the packages as name
>> for a module seems intuitive and using '_' instead of '.' as separator
>> inside the module name avoid the unecessary confusion for a human between a
>> package and a module with the same name, it's just a code convention.
>>
>> When retrofitting an old application, like by example the JDK, you will
>> group packages that have no a common prefix name or the common prefix can
>> be used for several modules, in that case, having a module named java.base
>> but no package java.base.something seems counter intuitive, using '_'
>> instead of '.' make clear that a module name is just a name.
>>
>> regards,
>> Rémi
>>
>> ----- Mail original -----
>>
>>> De: "Mario Torre" <neugens.limasoftware at gmail.com>
>>> À: "Paul Benedict" <pbenedict at apache.org>
>>> Cc: jigsaw-dev at openjdk.java.net
>>> Envoyé: Mardi 27 Octobre 2015 23:41:05
>>> Objet: Re: Jigsaw @ JavaOne 2015
>>>
>>> 2015-10-27 22:13 GMT+01:00 Paul Benedict <pbenedict at apache.org>:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Mark. Great slides. I'd just like to throw out my impression
>>>> (again)
>>>> that module names with dots look like packages. How receptive is the EG
>>>> to
>>>> changing it to underscores?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think that this is the exact point, mapping to package seems quite
>>> intuitive as it represents directly the content of the module.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Mario
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