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What is the plural of Saturday?
Saturdays
Saturdays is of course also the plural of Saturday, the name of the day between Friday and Sunday. When it’s used as an adverb, Saturdays describes when something happens or when an action is taken. The singular form Saturday can also be used as an adverb, as in We’re closed Saturday or Do you work Saturday?
How do you create a package?
To create a package, you choose a name for the package (naming conventions are discussed in the next section) and put a package statement with that name at the top of every source file that contains the types (classes, interfaces, enumerations, and annotation types) that you want to include in the package.
When does a package name need to be singular?
As always, it’s up to your discretion and what makes sense in your environment, but I tend to name them singular when the classes in the package are classification and plural when they are implementations.
When to use the plural or the singular in Java?
Use the plural for packages with homogeneous contents and the singular for packages with heterogeneous contents. A class is similar to a database relation. A database relation should be named in the singular as its records are considered to be instances of the relation. Also asked, should package name be singular or plural?
Which is the correct name for a package?
If it is named in the plural (as they often are ), I would expect that the package contains homogeneous concepts. For example, a type should be named TaskCollection instead of TasksCollection, as it is a collection containing instances of a Task.
How to choose a package name in Java?
From the Wikipedia article on Java package naming: In general, a package name begins with the top level domain name of the organization and then the organization’s domain and then any subdomains, listed in reverse order. The organization can then choose a specific name for its package. Beside above, should class names be singular or plural?