Plz help me in solving the problem of JAVAC comand

[varunmehta kumar]

Given the default classpath:
/foo
And this directory structure:
foo
|
test
|
xcom
|--A.class
|--B.java
And these two files:
package xcom;
public class A { }
package xcom;
public class B extends A { }


Which allows B.java to compile? (Choose all that apply.)
A. Set the current directory to xcom then invoke
javac B.java
B. Set the current directory to xcom then invoke
javac -classpath . B.java
C. Set the current directory to test then invoke
javac -classpath . xcom/B.java
D. Set the current directory to test then invoke
javac -classpath xcom B.java
E. Set the current directory to test then invoke
javac -classpath xcom:. B.java


correct ans is "C"

Please explain this 2 me

[Aniket Patil]

The fundamental idea with packages and classpath is that your classpath needs to be the parent directory of the top-most directory in your package.

If your package hierarchy is A.B.C:

A
|
|-B
  |
  |-C
    |
    |-SomeClass.java
 
SomeClass.java:
 
package A.B.C;
class SomeClass{}

Then, your classpath needs to be the parent directory of A.

Option A: The default classpath being /foo, your topmost package directory needs to be a subdirectory of foo. However, class A is in package xcom which is not in subdirectory foo, hence class A will not be found.

Option B: Using "classpath ." asks the java compiler to look for class A in a subirectory of xcom (since the current directory is set to xcom). Since package xcom to which class A belongs cannot be a subdirectory of itself, class A cannot be found.

Option C: With the current directory test, the classpath . looks for class A in a subirectory of test, where package com exists and class A is found. You need to give the correct path to B.java here.

Option D: classpath xcom asks javac to look for class A in a subdirectory of xcom. This is similar to case B.

Option E: This would work, if the path to B.java is correct. javac looks for source files in the current directory which is set to test where class B cannot be found
[ January 25, 2007: Message edited by: Aniket Patil ]

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