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I'd like to publish a small open-source library in Java. I wonder what package name should I choose? I'm not a company and I don't have a domain that I could use as the basis for naming the package according to the naming conventions. Still I'd like to somehow follow the naming conventions to prevent an accidental conflict and to keep things standard.

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Go with SOSJP - Small Open-Source Java Project. IF you want to avoid any conflicts, add timestamp to this name - so it will become SOSJP1351952637112. Irony aside, - don't worry about conflicts, you can always rename later. – c69 Nov 3 '12 at 14:24
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Invest a few bucks in a domain name? – walrii Nov 3 '12 at 17:14

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Why not make use of your surname? Something like pudlak.project_name.

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I didn't think of this and it's certainly a valid option satisfying the requirements. But somehow I don't feel comfortable with that, I feel like I'd be promoting myself too much. Also if other people contribute to the library, won't such a name be a bit unfair to them? – Petr Pudlák Nov 3 '12 at 14:20
Then drop the surname and just use project_name. – Bernard Nov 3 '12 at 14:49
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If you don't have a domain name, you can still use that naming convention and name it (org\com\net\whatever).projectname. The package name doesn't necessarily need to be the domain name you expect the project to be found at, although it does make things easier. Some projects end up moving domains and don't have their package names renamed for compatibility reasons.

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you certainly ... could do that. but it would be so very silly – sparkleshy Jan 7 at 16:31

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