Namespace capitalization problem

[Arijit Ghosh]

In Java 1.0 and Java 1.1 the domain extensions com, edu, org, net, etc., were capitalized by convention, so the library would appear: COM.abc.def. Partway through the development of Java 2, however, it was discovered that this caused PROBLEMS, and so now the entire package name is lowercase
What kind of problem ?
Does this mean that writing NameSpace in CAPS is an error ?
Regards,
Arijit

[Dinesh Kumar]

I don't think it's an error Arijit. It probably means that java converts them to lower case on its own.
The problems would occur in systems like Unix / Linux etc. where the case of package names matters as the system would treat a folder named "com" and another one named "COM" as being two different folders.
...Dinesh

[Arijit Ghosh]

Thanks Dinesh

[William Brogden]

In Java 1.0 and Java 1.1 the domain extensions com, edu, org, net, etc., were capitalized by convention, so the library would appear: COM.abc.def. Partway through the development of Java 2, however, it was discovered that this caused PROBLEMS, and so now the entire package name is lowercase

I worked alot with Java 1.0 and Java 1.1 and I don't recall ever seeing that usage anywhere. Where did you see it?
Bill

[Arijit Ghosh]

This was written in the book "Thinking in Java" Second Edition. by Bruce Eckel
Regards,
Arijit