Upper casing classes in Java-support

Tom Zeller tzeller at dragonacea.biz
Wed Mar 26 20:30:31 EDT 2014


> Well, on the stuff in that package specifically...  I had previously brought
> up this kind of case and we agreed (at least as far as people expressed an
> opinion at that time) that we wouldn't rename these.  By this I'm talking
> about the cases where the class/method name refers to a class or interface
> in some third-party API.
>
> For example, there we have HttpClientBuilder.  It's not a builder of some
> kind of "HTTP client".  It's a builder of a specific named thing, from
> another library, called HttpClient.
>
> Same thing for HttpServletRequest/-Response and things of a similar nature.
> E.g we currently have ThreadLocalHttpServletRequestProxy and that would stay
> the same
>
> I'm not saying we can't reverse course and do something different, but
> that's what I thought the plan was.

Yes, that's what I thought too, thank you for the reminder.


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