Is there a standard naming convention for a method of the following kind...
Not a setter/getter method (that is, doesn't provide public access to an otherwise private member of the class)
Not a finder method in the
EJB sense
Does calculate a value and return that value, or otherwise fetches a value from some other source and returns it to the caller.
For instance, I'm creating a method
obtainDate
that, when called, makes a call to an NTP server and obtains the date, and then returns that date to the calling code ...
calling code --calls---> obtainDate ---calls---> NTP server
<-returns-- <-returns--
Is there something I should be naming this method other than "obtainDate"?
Thanks.