java包为什么是com开头,为什么包名通常以“com”开头？

I am a java developer. Nowadays I am learning struts and when reading a tutorial a curiosity intruded in my mind regarding

package com.something.something;

I know it is a very simple package declaration but what about

package **com**.something.something;

This package name fragment often comes in many commercial distributions. Now I want to know what does it mean? Please clarify it.

Thanks and sorry if I couldn't clarify it...

解决方案

It's just a namespace definition to avoid collision of class names. The com.domain.package.Class is an established Java convention wherein the namespace is qualified with the company domain in reverse.