how do you organize your namespaces?

Question

So I have logical entities (person, country, etc.), gui elements / controls, data and navigation controllers / managers, then things like quadtrees and timers and I always struggle with cleanly separating these things into logical namespaces

I usually have something like this:

• Leviathan.GUI.Controls
• Leviathan.GUI.Views
• Leviathan.Entities
• Leviathan.Controllers (Data and other stuff)
• Leviathan.Helpers (Trees and other stuff)

are there any good guides on this? I need to step this mess.

Answer 1

Try to avoid the "and other stuff" or "misc." categories, If you are putting things in these categories you are failing to really organize them at all.

Answer 2

For applications

Company.Product.Tier.Sub.Sub

where I like to get Tier from Model, View, Controller or other established names (Data)

But for our controls, we end up with

Company.Product.LogicalFeatureGrouping

or

Company.Product.Addon

sometimes it's

Company.Product.LogicalFeatureGrouping.Addon

Answer 3

I follow the Java / python ideal that namespaces should follow the directory structure.

Answer 4

I usually create a namespace for every single tiers, like UI, business logic and database. It forces me to separate the tiers. I create other namespaces inside them according to system components.