Looking at the JDK itself: URL URLClassLoader SQLException UIDefaults
It seems that within the JDK Sun is pretty consistent with all caps for acronyms. > -----Original Message----- > From: Morgan Delagrange [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 12:13 PM > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > Subject: Re: Your commits to commons-configuration > > > > --- Kurt Schrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 14 Jan 2003, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: > > > > > According to Sun naming rules (and Apache > > convention), even acronyms are > > > written in the "first letter caps" rule in method > > and class names. So > > > IMHO "XmlConfiguration" is better than > > "XMLConfiguration". > > > > > > Same goes for "DOM4JConfiguration" vs. > > "Dom4JConfiguration". > > > > > > I'd like to get these class names changed back. > > > > The Sun naming rules don't say anything about > > acronyms. > > Actually they do talk about acroymns in class names, > they just don't seem to pin down the capitalization: > > http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConventions.doc8.html > > > Effective Java (pg. 165) says: > > > > There is little consensus as to whether acronyms > > should be uppercase or > > have only their first letter capitalized. > > > > Either way should be ok. > > > > -Kurt > > > > I agree with Henning that the preponderance of Apache > classes seem to use mixed case for acroymns. Also, > recent Java packages ("javax.servlet", > "javax.servlet.jsp" e.g.) seem to use mixed case, but > older packages (e.g. "java.net") do not. I think > precedent supports Henning. > > - Morgan > > ===== > Morgan Delagrange > http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs > http://jakarta.apache.org/commons > http://axion.tigris.org > http://jakarta.apache.org/watchdog > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
