C++ Namespaces, comparison to Java packages

Question

I\'ve done a bunch of Java coding recently and have got used to very specific package naming systems, with deep nesting e.g. com.company.project.db. This works fine

Answer 1

Java packages are not nested, they're flat. Any apparent nesting is nothing more than a naming convention.

For example, the package com.company.project.db has no relation whatsoever to com.company.project or com.company.project.db.x. Code in com.company.project.db has no more access to code in com.company.project.db.x than would code in a.b.c.