importing a package

[Oceana Wickramasinghe]

Hey guys, i been trying to import a package but it wont work

I got my files on D drive, folder "project1". And also i use Jcreator.

My first program

package com.lost;

public class Jack{
}

now the package com is created inside project1 folder, the source file is in the same folder.

And i created another program

import com.*;

public class Locke{
}

the source file is in the same folder, project1.

but when i try to compile it i get a compiler error "package com does not exist"

but if i change my program into this

import com.lost.Jack;

public class Locke{
}

It compiles without any errors. Simply put i cant import the entire package. I can only import the specific class. What am i doing wrong here?

[Bear Bibeault]

You need to specify com.lost.*.

com.* will not recurse to lower packages.

[Oceana Wickramasinghe]

Bear Bibeault wrote:You need to specify com.lost.*.

com.* will not recurse to lower packages.

Thank you, it worked. But can you please explian further. Why does this happen.

[Matthew Brown]

Java packages have a hierarchical naming convention, but they're not actually hierarchical. So the com.lost package isn't part of the com package. You have to import each package explicitly.