Package name part of a class?

[Viralraj Upadhyay]

I read this somewhere "Package name is part of the class and cannot be modified except by recompiling the class." I did not get this clearly. Can anybody throw light on this?

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Hi,

Welcome to JavaRanch!

Hmmm; that seems pretty clear to me. If you have a class like

package com.foo.you;
 
class Foo {}

and you compile it, the package name "com.foo.you" is included in the Foo.class file. Moving the Foo.class file to a different directory doesn't change the fact that class Foo is in package com.foo.you . The only way to change that is to edit the "package" statement in Foo.java and recompile it.