Hello Everyone

I would like to know how you set up your projects in Java

For example, in my current work-project, a six year old J2EE app with approximately 2 million LoC, we only have one project in Eclipse. The package structure is split into tiers and then domains, so it follows guidelines from Sun/Oracle. A huge ant-script is building different jars out of this one source-folder

Personally I think it would be better to have multiple projects, at least for each tier. Recently I was playing around with a projects-structure like this:

• Domainproject (contains only annotated pojos, needed by all other projects)
• Datalayer (only persistence)
• Businesslogic (services)
• Presenter
• View

This way, it should be easier to exchange components and when using a build tool like Maven I can have everything in a repository so when only working on the frontend I can get the rest as a dependecy in my classpath.

Does this makes sense to you? Do you use different approaches and how do they look like?

Furthermore I am struggeling how to name my packages/projects correctly. Right now, the above project-structure reflects in the names of the packages, eg. de.myapp.view and it continues with some technical subfolders like internal or interfaces. What I am missing here, and I dont know how to do this properly, is the distinction to a certain domain. When the project gets bigger it would be nice to recognise a particular domain but also the technical details to navigate more easily within the project.

This leads to my second question: how do you name your projects and packages?