Java Naming Style Conventions
Why Naming Styles?
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By
following the Java naming style conventions your code will not only look like
Java, it will help you and others in reading and understanding your code.
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For
the conventions to work, every person writing software must conform to the
conventions.
General Convention
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As
a general convention, avoid the use of abbreviations except where the
abbreviation is more common than the full name as in: HTML, URL, gpa, sin, cos,
etc.
Class and
Interface names
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These
should be nouns or noun phrases, with the first letter of each word
capitalized, and all other letters in lower case. For example.
Frame
Dictionary
MenuBar
SecurityManagerMethod names
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These
should be verbs or verb phrases, with the first letter of each word except the
first capitalized, and all other letters in lower case. For example,
getSize
setSize
show
isVisible
toUpperCase
Field names that
are not final
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Should
be nouns, noun phrases, with the same capitalization as for method names. For
example,
position
firstName
bytesTransferred
final field
names (i.e., constants)
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A
sequence of one or more words in all uppercase, with components separated by
underscore "_" characters. For example,
PI
MAXIMUM_VALUE
NUMBER_OF_STUDENTS
Local variables
and parameters
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These
are similar to non-final field names.
They should be short, yet meaningful.
For example,
age circleArea xPosition
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One-character
local variable or parameter names should be avoided, except for temporary and
looping variables. Conventional
one-character names are: