What's the significance of TLD-first domain-like identifiers?

Question

\"TLD-first domain-like identifiers\" is a mouthful but that\'s all I can come up with.

I\'ve seen these used in various places over the years and wondered what the hist

Answer 1

No, it's not pedantry, it's to create a namespace.

There might be other 3 party developers/programs/etc. that also could create a iTunesHelper.plist or a SQLRunner.java class. You prefix these with your own namespace, e.g. your domain name to create a reasonably unique name so com.oracle.SQLRunner.java is different and doesn't clash with org.postgresql.SQLRunner.java