[PEAK] wiki, ComposingHierarchies tutorial, don't understand PropertyName and simplecmpApp

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:39 AM 8/4/04 +0200, Alexandre Garel wrote:
>Hello,
>I read your page on peak wiki with title ComposingHierarchies 
>(<http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/ComposingHierarchies>http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/ComposingHierarchies).
>I didn't understood lines like
>
>
>SPAM_PROPERTY = PropertyName("simplecmpApp.spam")
>
>What is PropertyName and simplecmpApp ?
>could you explain ?

I didn't write that tutorial, but 'PropertyName' is a PEAK class for 
hierarchical names similar to Java configuration property names.  A 
PropertyName is basically a dotted name used to reference configuration 
properties.

Usually, you want property names to be prefixed with some kind of 
package-specific or application-specific identifier.  So, without actually 
looking at the tutorial, I'm guessing that 'simplecmpApp' means 'simple 
composing application' and is the prefix the tutorial's author chose to use 
for the example.