On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 10:09:23 -0700, Steve Comstock wrote:
>
>The only such standard I'm aware of is Language Environment (LE)
>messaging. Basically, there the standard is a 3-character prefix
>that identifies the component issuing the message, also called
>the facility ID, and facility IDs that begin with A-I are reserved
>for IBM components. [ISV's can register their own facility ID, in
>order to prevent conflicts, by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Apple exploits an existing registry of names by using bigendianized
registered domain names as facility IDs, and apparently encourages
independents to conform:
com.apple.ActivityMonitor.plist
...
com.google.GECommonSettings.plist
...
com.hp.printerutility.plist
...
com.microsoft.mediaplayer.plist
...
com.sun.star.comp.deployment.component.PackageRegistryBackend
... etc. (8-character member names aspirate. Even 44 character data
set names.)
-- gil
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