Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:38:14 -0500 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 03:38:17 -0700 From: Patricia Shanahan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Really "BIG" class name wanted References: <37e4697b-5aab-42ef-a1e5-3ce5a6d866a8@e15g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <37e4697b-5aab-42ef-a1e5-3ce5a6d866a8@e15g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 29 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.230.200.54 X-Trace: sv3-vfz48K1vGc5je1vKevrkvYBlOhRa0+mzFE0cn9Ev/ogdrD/0j4GUF3GsEqw0s0mSm1KXmR1aIzWln6R!B3IOu6FkZAkzav3ua7PX7Y0pxatjS5Lt9SELD8WNE8012oYU2a6NFM7MEZpBUh19afbuVD+85J66!r3T3UyMuVZs4enIAtFP6AgY1DwXIhAij0WjVAUUq/cc/ow== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2776 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:6630 On 7/28/2011 3:20 AM, Ross wrote: > I'm now building a centralised class for a whole lot of important > functions in a program I'm writing. At present, there are too many > "little" objects that are passed around to parts of the application. > E.g. there's a "PropertyHandler" from/to which properties can be read/ > written. There's a global save/load object which can save and load > various types of data items. There's an update notifier so that > updates in one part of the application are sent to other parts of the > application, either end of which might be plugins. Rather than have > too many little object, I'd like to have one "BIG" object which stores > all the little ones, and has methods such as "getPropertyHandler()", > "getSaveLoadMediator()", "getPatchMediator()" etc. This will also > simplify my interface for Plugins. > > But given the importance of this central class, I want a really "BIG" > name for it. I could call it "BigMediator", or "ImportantObjects", but > want a more impressive name. Just thought that calling it > "TheCentralScrutinizer" might work, as well as being a tip of the hat > to Frank Zappa. But particularly since this object will be important > for any future plugin writers, I want a really good class name for it. > > Any suggestions? One of the tests I use for my program design ideas is whether the thing I'm thinking up has an obviously suitable name. Trouble thinking of a name for a class or method is a warning sign that it may not be a really good idea. Patricia