Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-db-derby-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 79729 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2007 02:39:43 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 18 Sep 2007 02:39:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 95883 invoked by uid 500); 18 Sep 2007 02:39:34 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-db-derby-user-archive@db.apache.org Received: (qmail 95853 invoked by uid 500); 18 Sep 2007 02:39:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact derby-user-help@db.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: "Derby Discussion" Delivered-To: mailing list derby-user@db.apache.org Received: (qmail 95842 invoked by uid 99); 18 Sep 2007 02:39:34 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:39:34 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=10.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [192.18.6.24] (HELO gmp-eb-mail-2.sun.com) (192.18.6.24) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:41:25 +0000 Received: from fe-emea-10.sun.com (gmp-eb-lb-2-fe1.eu.sun.com [192.18.6.10]) by gmp-eb-mail-2.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l8I2dAIS002627 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:39:10 GMT Received: from conversion-daemon.fe-emea-10.sun.com by fe-emea-10.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) id <0JOJ00201LVVQJ00@fe-emea-10.sun.com> (original mail from Dag.Wanvik@Sun.COM) for derby-user@db.apache.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:39:10 +0100 (BST) Received: from khepri05.norway.sun.com ([129.159.112.194]) by fe-emea-10.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTPSA id <0JOJ0033CM0TWQ00@fe-emea-10.sun.com> for derby-user@db.apache.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:38:54 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:38:53 +0200 From: Dag.Wanvik@Sun.COM (Dag H. Wanvik) Subject: Re: Why do class names start with lower lowercase? In-reply-to: <12747871.post@talk.nabble.com> Sender: Dag.Wanvik@Sun.COM To: Derby Discussion Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <12747871.post@talk.nabble.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.1 (usg-unix-v) X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org jiangshachina writes: > Hi guys, > This may a stupid question :-D > > According to Java coding convention, class name would start with uppercase, > but several class names of Derby start with lowercase, e.g. ij, dblook, > sysinfo. Just guessing here; maybe because these three are classes for tools typically invoked on commandline, e.g. java org.apache.derby.tools.ij so for convenience they are in lower case? Mostly in the Derby codeline the convention is followed, though. Dag