creating a package of classes

[Cyrus Serrano]

can anyone give me an introductory on how classes can be package, please...
thanks...
Cyrus

[Sainudheen Mydeen]

Hi

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/interpack/packages.html

-Sainudheen

[Dirk Schreckmann]

Sometimes when folks are talking about packaging some Java classes, they're talking about putting them together in a JAR file. Take a look at The Jar Files Trail of Sun's Java Tutorial for such instructions and information.

[Jacquie Barker]

Determine the name of the package, then in each class that is to belong to that package, put in the statement:
package com.mypackage; // or whatever the name is to be
ahead of all import statements.
When you compile your source code, use the command:
javac -d . *.java
to cause all of the .class files to be stored in a subdirectory beneath the working directory whose path matches the path name; in the case of my example above, if my source code were in a directory called /mycode, then the .class files would wind up in a directory called /mycode/com/mypackage.
Next, use the following command
jar cvf somename.jar com
to bundle up, as a Java archive, all of the code in your package.
Anyone wanting to use your package would have to (a) import com.mypackage.* and (b) have your jar file in their classpath.
Hope this helps!