How should I name packages if I don't have a domain associated with me? [closed]

Answer 1

What you can do also is register a domain (actually a sub-domain) through a service such as DynDns (or one of the equivalents) and then use that domain name. You will be the sole controller and it is free and easy to maintain. They have a choice of 88 top domains at the moment (October 2008). dyndns dynamic dns service

Answer 2

IMHO, best if it does not depend on any external information, such as hosting provider or company (it could be released to the open source community), since package-level refactoring is not quite desirable, especially in the case of frameworks and libraries. I suggest choosing your project name carefully and unambiguously, then using org.<project name> as the root package.

Answer 3

If your creating an open source project, you could register it with Sourceforge and use net.sourceforge.myproject. This is common with a lot of Java projects. An example is PMD http://pmd.sourceforge.net/.

Answer 4

Many people have their own websites and relatively unique names (or login names).

If your name is Bernard Something, you may own BernardSomething.com, making com.bernardsomething.xxxx (or com.bsomething.xxx) a legitimate package name IMHO for personal code.

That being said, If your project name is unique, you may want to name the package after that.

And of course, get the domain after your name if you don't own it yet!

Answer 5

I've been in a couple different companies who write house java classes. Often they're just com.blah.blah.blah without regard to whether there's a actual domain name behind it.

Answer 6

Use a top-level domain like 'bernard' or something else unique. The important part is that the domain is unique so that you avoid clashes, and not that it starts with a real Internet top-level domain like org or com. E.g.

import java.util.*;
import bernard.myProject.*;
import org.apache.commons.lang.*;