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This one[1] from .Net comes quite close. Though, it was almost decade ago, they might have passed Java on class name length by now.

[1]http://weblogs.asp.net/rchartier/archive/2004/02/05/68350.as...

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System.Windows.Forms.IDataGridColumnStyleEditingNotificationService

Interesting. It's long, but it's also pretty clear on what it does, and doesn't have any repeated words.

Reading this, I would guess that it's a notification of when the user starts editing a column, and indeed that's what it does. "Informs the System.Windows.Forms.DataGrid that the user has begun editing the column." is the official description in the API.

But .Net is not open source, so you don't have information about the internal classes used in it.

Anyways, we are shaming Java here because of one obviously automatically generated internal class.

IMHO it's not close at all. First, the namespace shouldn't be counted, leading to a huge difference in sheer length. Second, the words in the BCL name, more or less, form a comprehensible noun phrase. Third and anyway, this is the longest public class in the BCL, whereas the article describes an internal class; a much higher bar should be held for public names.

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