Help with packages in java – import does not work

Okay, just to clarify things that have already been posted.

You should have the directory com, containing the directory company, containing the directory example, containing the file MyClass.java.

From the folder containing com, run:

$ javac com\company\example\MyClass.java

Then:

$ java com.company.example.MyClass
Hello from MyClass!

These must both be done from the root of the source tree. Otherwise, javac and java won’t be able to find any other packages (in fact, java wouldn’t even be able to run MyClass).

A short example

I created the folders “testpackage” and “testpackage2”. Inside testpackage, I created TestPackageClass.java containing the following code:

package testpackage;

import testpackage2.MyClass;

public class TestPackageClass {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello from testpackage.TestPackageClass!");
        System.out.println("Now accessing " + MyClass.NAME);
    }
}

Inside testpackage2, I created MyClass.java containing the following code:

package testpackage2;
public class MyClass {
    public static String NAME = "testpackage2.MyClass";
}

From the directory containing the two new folders, I ran:

C:\examples>javac testpackage\*.java

C:\examples>javac testpackage2\*.java

Then:

C:\examples>java testpackage.TestPackageClass
Hello from testpackage.TestPackageClass!
Now accessing testpackage2.MyClass

Does that make things any clearer?