naming conventions - Hyphenated company name in Java packages

Question

Say you're working on the core module of the foo project for BarBaz Incorporated. Your code fragment might look like this:

package com.barbaz.foo.core;

import com.barbaz.foo.util;

What would the convention be if your company's website was not barbaz.com, but instead bar-baz.com?

Answer 1

The SUN-era Java Language Specification gives a suggested convention:

If the domain name contains a hyphen, or any other special character not allowed in an identifier (§3.8), convert it into an underscore.

But it's just a suggestion...