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Sam
Sam

Reputation: 6900

Why often project name start with com phase?

I see several project that its naming start with com such as com.company_name.project_name. For sample at tutorial of maven at apache site for sample project says: mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app -DartifactId=my-app -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -Dinteractiv

This issue maybe simple for more people but is ambiguous for me.

My question is: What often project naming start with com?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 645

Answers (2)

rotifan
rotifan

Reputation: 45

That comes from the Java package naming convention. See the Java Naming a package page for more details. The relevant part that explains com.companyname packages states "Companies use their reversed Internet domain name to begin their package names—for example, com.example.mypackage for a package named mypackage created by a programmer at example.com."

Upvotes: 1

NoDataFound
NoDataFound

Reputation: 11969

Because by conventions com is for commercial (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com ) and in Java, and in Maven too, we tends to use the reverse host name (eg: app.mycompany.com -> com.mycompany.app).

Apache or Codehaus would use org.

Upvotes: 2

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