java import packages question

[Phil Lesh]

If I created a package structure like this:

App
|____ gui
|____ helper
|____ etc...

is it possible to import a class from package "helper" into "gui". I tied simply saying "import helper.*;" in one of the "gui" package class but it obviously didn't find it because "helper" package is on the same level as the "gui" package. Also i tried setting the packages like so: "App.gui" & "App.helper". The reason why I want to do this is I want to separate all the button/panel/etc creations and place them in gui package and have things like listeners in a different package comprised of classes with static methods which the gui components can access. Thank you very much for your help.

[Blake Minghelli]

Yes, you can definitely do that - it does not matter if you import a class on the same level, a lower level, a higher level, or even in a completely different package structure.
This sounds more like a problem with your classpath. If you have C:\work\App\gui\MyComponent.java and MyComponent.java has package and import statements like:

package App.gui; 
import App.helper.*;

Then your classpath should contain "C:\work".
Hope that helps

[Cindy Glass]

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Cindy

[Phil Lesh]

When packages are named App.gui, App.helper and compilation/running takes place outside the App directory, the compilation works fine, but with the command "java App.TheApp", I get the following error:
J:\>javac App\*.java
J:\>java App.TheApp
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: App/TheApp (wrong name: TheApp)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
Can anyone help?
thanks
Phil

[Phil Lesh]

P.S. the main class sits in the "App" dir and is called "TheApp.java"