Java Packages

humbert

To cut a long story short I've some java source code I'd like to compile. It's in the form of com.packagename.particularclass and the folder structure is ..\com\packagename\directoriesandfiles.

Say I want to compile \com\packagename\somefile.java that requires other classes/files from the package how would I go about it? I've never really used eclipse or netbeans before, just a code editor and javac, but if it's the easiest way I'd give it a shot.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

marco_polo

humbert wrote:

To cut a long story short I've some java source code I'd like to compile. It's in the form of com.packagename.particularclass and the folder structure is ..\com\packagename\directoriesandfiles.

Say I want to compile \com\packagename\somefile.java that requires other classes/files from the package how would I go about it? I've never really used eclipse or netbeans before, just a code editor and javac, but if it's the easiest way I'd give it a shot.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

javac -cp "<parent dir of the com dir>" com.packagename.somefile.java

Giblet

import com.package.file;

humbert

Thanks, that's what I was trying and why I was so frustrated. I was compiling another file with an enum in it and it was giving silly "; expected" errors.

So after some googling I found that it might be because I'd two compilers(or at least two versions) installed and when I checked I had downloaded "J2SE v 1.4.2_15 SDK" and "Java(TM) SE Development Kit 6" so I uninstalled both and reinstalled the latter and the problem vanished. Very odd.