A. MacKenzie
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2010-03-30
- milestone: --> v3.0.0-beta-2
- summary: Refactor: Class naming conventions --> Refactor: Class naming conventions : Server
- status: open --> open-accepted
"Class names should be nouns, in mixed case with the first letter of each internal word capitalized. Try to keep your class names simple and descriptive. Use whole words-avoid acronyms and abbreviations (unless the abbreviation is much more widely used than the long form, such as URL or HTML)."
2 Challenges:
1) On Windows svn cannot change from mg.Java to Mg.java for example, may need to change an intermediate step eg mg to Mg2, commit, then Mg2 to Mg, or find a more descriptive name, for example mg.java to Messages.java
2) the form and panel classes, *have* to have the corresponding *.form file changed together. I think that NetBeans 6.5 can do the refactor correctly, but still need to verify.