[ jEdit-devel ] Buffer vs JEditBuffer and refactoring ideas...

[Alan E. <ala...@gm...>]

I'm thinking, is there any good reason to call the class "JEditBuffer"?
It's already in a package with "jedit" in its name. I think that as
long as two Buffers are in different packages, they can have the same
name.

In our implementations, we can just do explicit package specifications
where it's ambiguous, but this would mean that broken code can all be
fixed with some changing of imports at the top.

I propose this. rename JEditBuffer back to Buffer, fix it up in the
jEdit source, and then gradually move all implementation classes out
of the org.gjt.sp.jedit package and into an org.gjt.sp.jedit.impl
package, keeping the names the same, but putting an interface in the
org.gjt.sp.jedit package where there was once a class. Then we just
need to design some elegant factory interface for getting certain
objects, and integrate that with the beanshell namespace, and Bob's
your uncle.

What do you think?