Invoking method in packaged class

[Graeme Byers]

Two classes C:\GBJava\SourceLib\GBTestA.java , C:\GBJava\SourceLib\GBTest.java

 
package com.hotmail.graemebyers ;
public class GBTestA {
       public void aMethod() {
              System.out.println ("GBTestA aMethod") ; 
       }
}

import com.hotmail.graemebyers ;
public class GBTest {
       public static void main (String[] args) {
              System.out.println ("GBTest") ;
              GBTestA ta = new GBTestA() ;
              ta.aMethod() ;
       }
}

    
>cd C:\GBJava\SourceLib
>javac -d C:\GBJava\ClassLib GBTestA.java                       
>dir C:\GBJava\ClassLib\com\hotmail\graemebyers
>GBTestA.class 
>javac -classpath C:\GBJava\ClassLib -d C:\GBJava\ClassLib GBTest.java      
GBTest.java:1: package com.hotmail does not exist
import com.hotmail.graemebyers ;
                   ^
GBTest.java:5: cannot find symbol
symbol  : class GBTestA
location: class GBTest
              GBTestA ta = new GBTestA() ;
              ^
GBTest.java:5: cannot find symbol
symbol  : class GBTestA
location: class GBTest
              GBTestA ta = new GBTestA() ;
                               ^
3 errors                 
 

It seems odd that the error is GBTest.java:1: package com.hotmail does not exist
The package name is truncated - graemebyers missing.

Change the source to below and all OK - What am I doing wrong ?

  
public class GBTest {
       public static void main (String[] args) {
              System.out.println ("GBTest") ;
              com.hotmail.graemebyers.GBTestA ta = new 
              com.hotmail.graemebyers.GBTestA() ;
              ta.aMethod() ;
       }
}

Thank you.

[Bhagat Singh Rawat]

Graeme Byers wrote:Two classes C:\GBJava\SourceLib\GBTestA.java , C:\GBJava\SourceLib\GBTest.java

 
package com.hotmail.graemebyers ;
public class GBTestA {
       public void aMethod() {
              System.out.println ("GBTestA aMethod") ; 
       }
}

import com.hotmail.graemebyers ;
public class GBTest {
       public static void main (String[] args) {
              System.out.println ("GBTest") ;
              GBTestA ta = new GBTestA() ;
              ta.aMethod() ;
       }
}

Please change line

import com.hotmail.graemebyers ;

to

import com.hotmail.graemebyers. GBTestA;
or
import com.hotmail.graemebyers. *;

in the above code and it should work. Also if your app context is in the classpath you don't require this even. Set classpath as

set classpath=.;%classpath%; at dos console

Note: Your class files should be under:
<<AppContext>>\com\hotmail\graemebyers\GBTestA.class
<<AppContext>>\GBTest.class

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Import statements always refer to classes, not to packages. If you want to import all the classes in a package, you use a wildcard to stand in for the class names:

import com.hotmail.graemebyers.*;

Don't use the CLASSPATH environment variable, as recommended above -- there be dragons.

[Graeme Byers]

Thank you , it was the asterisk.

[Campbell Ritchie]

I was about to post this, when I saw you had got an answer. You can have it anyway

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I presume your two classes are in different files, or they won't compile.
Search this forum for how to compile a class with a package declaration; there are several ways to do it. If you find my first post in this thread, for example, you get links to how to do it.
You will have to compile the classes with a wildcard (*.java), or compile the class with the package declaration first.