Compiling and Importing Non-Static Inner Class

I am reading Khalid Mughals's book for certification.
When I am trying to compile a program that imports inner classes (Pg 234(Example 7.5) Khalid Mughal's book) the compiler is giving error " package TLClassA does not exist".
Can someone tell me, if something is required for importing inner classes.
I have already executed example 7.4 and so all inner classes are present in the same folder in which I am running example 7.5.
For reference I am giving the codes also
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//Example 7.5
//Filename ClientTLC2.java
class TLClassA{
private String msg = "TLClassA Object ";
public TLClassA(String objNo) {msg = msg + objNo;}
public void printmsg(){System.out.println(msg);}
class InnerB{
private String msg = "InnerB Object ";
public InnerB(String objNo) {msg = msg + objNo;}
public void printmsg(){System.out.println(msg);}
class InnerC{
private String msg = "InnerC Object ";
public InnerC(String objNo) {msg = msg + objNo;}
public void printmsg(){
System.out.println(msg);
System.out.println(this.msg);
System.out.println(InnerB.this.msg);
System.out.println(InnerC.this.msg);
InnerB.this.printmsg();
System.out.println(TLClassA.this.msg);
TLClassA.this.printmsg();
}
}
}
}
public class ClientTLC2{
public static void main(String args[]){
TLClassA a = new TLClassA("1");
TLClassA.InnerB b = a.new InnerB("1");
TLClassA.InnerB.InnerC c = b.new InnerC("1");
c.printmsg();
TLClassA.InnerB bb = new TLClassA("2").new InnerB("2");
TLClassA.InnerB.InnerC cc = bb.new InnerC("2");
cc.printmsg();
TLClassA.InnerB.InnerC ccc = new TLClassA("3").new InnerB("3").new InnerC("3");
ccc.printmsg();
}
}
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//Example 7.5
//Filename ClientTLC3.java
import TLClassA.*;
public class ClientTLC3{
public static void main(String args[]){
TLClassA a = new TLClassA("1");
InnerB b = a.new InnerB("1");
InnerB.InnerC c = b.new InnerC("1");
c.printmsg();
InnerB bb = new TLClassA("2").new InnerB("2");
InnerB.InnerC cc = bb.new InnerC("2");
cc.printmsg();
InnerB.InnerC ccc = new TLClassA("3").new InnerB("3").new InnerC("3");
ccc.printmsg();
}
}package TLClassA does not exist

Hi,
Why don't try CodeSaw
you can get it at www.codesaw.com. All the exemples of Mughal book are updated and can be compiled and run within it.
I just check the code it compiles fine.

Hi Shishio San !
Thank u for telling me abt this site... It seems to be an interesting site.
But still my problem is not solved. The example runs fine in CodeSaw but I want to know what is missing in my environment that I am getting the following error..
C:\Shweta\Java Programs\ClientTLC3.java:2: package TLClassA does not exist
import TLClassA.*;
^
C:\Shweta\Java Programs\ClientTLC3.java:7: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : class InnerB
location: class ClientTLC3
InnerB b = a.new InnerB("1");
^
C:\Shweta\Java Programs\ClientTLC3.java:8: package InnerB does not exist
InnerB.InnerC c = b.new InnerC("1");
^
C:\Shweta\Java Programs\ClientTLC3.java:10: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : class InnerB
location: class ClientTLC3
InnerB bb = new TLClassA("2").new InnerB("2");
^
C:\Shweta\Java Programs\ClientTLC3.java:11: package InnerB does not exist
InnerB.InnerC cc = bb.new InnerC("2");
^
C:\Shweta\Java Programs\ClientTLC3.java:13: package InnerB does not exist
InnerB.InnerC ccc = new TLClassA("3").new InnerB("3").new InnerC("3");
^
6 errors

hi shweta!
I got same error you got!
I did not change the code, just executed following line
"set classpath=%classpath%;."
code worked fine! ... got it?!

Kedar even after adding the . in my classpath I am getting the same error ...
Rather,I checked I already had that in my classpath !

shweta, I notice that both your classes are in the default package. Then you do not need any import statement.
when you write "import TLClassA.*", then a package by name TLClassA is looked for - remember that the package and class name can be the same.
You can get rid of the other compilation errors if you just prepend (if that is a word) TLClassA before each of the Inner class declarations in you client class.
I mean, you have to access the inner class as follows -
TLClassA.InnerB b = new TLClassA("outer").new InnerB("inner"
[ October 10, 2002: Message edited by: Vin Kris ]

Thanks Kris,
What you said anyway is working.
But I actually was trying an example where I can import Inner classes , so that short names can be given inside the code.
My aim is to import inner classes, but compiler is assuming it to be a package and it so I am getting that error constantly.
I want to know that how can I tell the compiler what I am importing is a Nested class and not a package .. !!!

You can import inner classes ading its name to the name of its containing class:

If you omit line (1) , line (2) will not compile.
Just place the above class in the parent directory of the directory tlcclassa containing:

In your example the package sentence was missing.

Hi Jose,
Thanks for ur help.Hey I tried what u said & it works fine.
In your code you have moved the class TLClassA in a package tlcclassa & made it public.
Then in the client program you have imported TLClassA by adding the package name before the class name.
This is working fine on my system !
I wonder what is the problem if we keep both the files in the default package. I guess the example which I referred (from KM's book) also keeps both the files in the default package.. !!!

In your example the package sentence was missing.

The package sentence is missing because I have kept both the files in the default package.