is there a standard way of declaring variables?
say ;[codeJTextFiled txtMyTextFiled, JPanel pnlDisplay, JFrame frmMain][/code]
are there a standard list of Prefixes of components, data types.... or is just the personal choice of the programmer to give prefixes on such?
thanks!
> are there a standard list of Prefixes of components,
> data types....
The standard is either "what the customer or company you work for defines as standard", or the Java coding guidelines (which IIRC only suggests the is- prefixes for booleans), or whatever you feel you need to do.
http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConvTOC.doc.html
> no. Read the official code standards. You should NOT
> use hungarian notation or anything of the kind.
> If your boss tells you to that's another thing, but
> normally you should NOT.
>
> It's very bad practice and should be stamped out.
my old boss' insistence on hungarian notation contributed quite heavily to me leaving the job after a few weeks :-) seriously, I think any organization that imposes something so inappropriate on developers doesn't understand the nature of the technology they're using. I strongly suspect this particular company moved over to java simply because it was The Done Thing, rather than for reasons of suitability. a warning sign in my book
> > where can i find the list? i asume it has some
> kind
> > of prefixes for developers to easily identify
> > particular declarations.
>
> Im pretty sure it doesnt.
I know that they used to have one which was only related to UI components, but I can't find it now. The last time that I read it was in 2000 (I think). I found some other documents that I read at the same time, and they contain broken links to "Guidelines Home Page" which not can't be found. They used to have many different types of guidelines there.
Here's an really old but good one on UI design :
http://java.sun.com/products/jlf/ed1/dg/index.htm
(It talks about JFC which was what Swing used to be called)
Here's a guideline which is on naming conventions for Enterprise Applications:
http://java.sun.com/blueprints/code/namingconventions.html
Sun does not just have one coding convention, they do actually have lots of them.
Kaj
