Enterprisify your Java Class Names

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by huskyr • 15 years ago

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Make sure your Java class names are Enterprisified(tm), use the Enterprisify tool!

king_magic6• 15 years ago

lol

king_magic6• 15 years ago

Well, I guess you guys are in a bad mood today.

scott_s4• 15 years ago

The culture around here dislikes noise. A post which just says "lol" adds nothing to the discussion, and will likely get downvoted.

strickjb92• 15 years ago

Unfortunately, I work at a place where most of the programmers here use naming conventions like these. I'm pretty sure it's to cover up their lack of ability or maybe they are suffering from dunning-kruger.

juliano_q• 15 years ago

Same here, and many times they complain if you give a properly simple name. Oh my.

JonnieCache2• 15 years ago

>dunning-kruger

This does not mean exactly what you think it means.

strickjb92• 15 years ago

your interpretation of my comment is not what you think it means

bocanaut• 15 years ago

nice diagnosis, could be pretty likely

jefffoster• 15 years ago

I did something similar at http://methodnamer.com/ and also some useless graphs and rants about the long names in Java (http://www.fatvat.co.uk/2011/05/method-names-in-java-develop...)

huskyr2• 15 years ago

Pretty cool, but they're not long enough ;)

jamesgeck0• 15 years ago

Change the dropdown to "Spring Framework style"

Gems such as setAspectListenerJobsToNativeIfStatements shall be yours!

fs111• 15 years ago

That's perfect, just combine it with http://www.classnamer.com/ and later you can even autmate the commit: http://whatthecommit.com/

joblessjunkie• 15 years ago

To be honest the "before" names look just as Enterprise-y as the "after" names.

rpeden• 15 years ago

If you want additional class naming inspiration, just browse the Spring codebase! Some of my favourites:

- SimpleBeanFactoryAwareAspectInstanceFactory

- AbstractInterceptorDrivenBeanDefinitionDecorator

- AbstractInterruptibleBatchPreparedStatementSetter

- SimpleRemoteStatelessSessionProxyFactoryBean

- TransactionAwarePersistenceManagerFactoryProxy

http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/javadoc-api...

huskyr2• 15 years ago

Wow, these names are pure gold! I've added about 30 new terms including classics such as 'Advisor', 'Filter and 'Generic'.

stuff4ben• 15 years ago

I cannot upvote you enough for that! As a Spring user for several years, I'm now beginning to have class-name-length-creep...impl ack!

dblock• 15 years ago

My productivity today tanked. I am ROFL. These are amazing.

breun2• 15 years ago

Want to find the longest class names in a Java codebase? Try this one-liner: https://gist.github.com/338197

cpeterso• 15 years ago

A related blast from the past: Steve Yegge's "Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns" blog post:

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...

Roboprog• 15 years ago

Yes. The site on this post seems to be "the word made flesh", though. :-)

chuinard• 15 years ago

I've found that most of these complex class names are found in the very frameworks which exist to simplify Java development (Spring being the big one), therefore I find myself never having to create a class with a name like this.

SystemOut• 15 years ago

But to be fair, unless you are really digging in and extending Spring you don't normally interact with these classes that often. That doesn't make the class names great but for most people Spring provides a lot of functionality and does simplify a lot of tasks.

numeromancer• 15 years ago

Sure, you're laughing now. But somebody you work with is going to find this site and use it in earnest, and before you know it you'll be setting your Eclipse window to automatically open across four monitors in horizontal series just to be able to edit one file at a time.

No parody is so foolish that no fool will ever take it seriously. Take care who you show this to.

hello_moto• 15 years ago

What do you guys think of this?

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/HashWithInd...

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/Cache/Compr...

breun2• 15 years ago

Child's play!

astrodust• 15 years ago

Not enterprise enough!

vrotaru• 15 years ago

My personal record:

    PropertyWithADifferentDefaultValueAlreadyExists

And I've missed to add `Exception` to its end, because that's what it is.

akavlie• 15 years ago

I'm on a Spring project, and the devs seem to do all the variables in this superLongVerboseHardToReadStyle.

Most of my work is Python/JavaScript/PHP, and in all three cases, the dev culture is mostly about short, succinct variable names.

So what is it about Java that makes developers tend toward these incredibly verbose variables? It makes it impossible to produce templates with reasonable line lengths sometimes, especially after adding on JSTL directives.

groovy2shoes• 15 years ago

I think it's mostly a misreading of software best practices. Descriptive does not imply verbose (and vice versa), but many people don't see the distinction.

Groxx• 15 years ago

Java SE / EE, methinks. After a while, a variable that's only 30 characters long feels small and insignificant compared to its type (AbstractThreadsafeSimpleMailTransferProtocolProxyFactoryInterface).

ernstje• 15 years ago

I guess it's twoo things: first, It's a common thing in java to somehow work the role a class plays in a design pattern into the class name, and the second is that variable names often reflect the type (class name), so there you go. Love it, hate it or go out and have some fun...

sehugg• 15 years ago

Surely someone here has programmed in Cocoa, right? NSAccessibilityScreenPointForLayoutPointParameterizedAttribute, anyone?

FuzzyDunlop• 15 years ago

All developers of these codebases need to do is place some ads on their documentation pages and they'll rake in a fortune from the amount of times people have to load it up to remember a class name.

Symfony2's namespacing is a good one for this too:

    \Symfony\Bundle\SecurityBundle\DependencyInjection\Security\Factory\SecurityFactoryInterface
    \Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\DataTransformer\DateTimeToLocalizedStringTransformer

http://api.symfony.com/2.0/classes.html

Enterprisify your Java Class Names

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