Hi Rodney!
Well, I have a singular opinion. If the package is to contain utilities,
everything would end up in org.apache.commons.util.
So, org.apache.commons.collections is probably a better choice.
Un saludo,
Alex.
> "Waldhoff, Rodney" wrote:
>
> Yeah. I was a bit torn on that point too.
>
> On the one hand, I'd prefer to package it parallel to the Java
> Collections Framework, which is of course java.util.*. But like you
> said, *.util be too broad of a category. What I'd really like to do
> is see the java.util.* collections moved to java.collections or
> java.adt or something, but I'm pretty sure that's not going to happen.
>
> I'm OK with making it org.apache.commons.collection (or collections?),
> especially if that will keep people from wanting to put random
> utilities in there. Anyone else have an opinion on that? Singular or
> plural?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 5:44 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: RFC: Collections Package
>
> How about using the package org.apache.commons.collection.* as
> org.apache.commons.util.* seems to broad for me ;)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pete
>
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