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Topics: Creating Your Own Packages in Java

- Packages enable grouping related classes and avoid namespace collisions. Package names correspond to directory structures. - To create a package, a matching directory structure must be made. Classes specify their package with a package statement. - The example shows creating packages "mypackage.mypackageA" and "mypackage.mypackageB" with classes like S1 and A that specify their package. The classes are compiled and stored in the right directories.

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Topics: Creating Your Own Packages in Java

- Packages enable grouping related classes and avoid namespace collisions. Package names correspond to directory structures. - To create a package, a matching directory structure must be made. Classes specify their package with a package statement. - The example shows creating packages "mypackage.mypackageA" and "mypackage.mypackageB" with classes like S1 and A that specify their package. The classes are compiled and stored in the right directories.

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Topics

• Creating Your Own Packages in Java

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Packages Introduction

• Packages enable grouping of functionally related


classes
• Package names are dot separated, e.g., java.lang.
• Package names have a correspondence with the
directory structure
• Packages Avoid name space collision. There can not
be two classes with same name in a same Package.
But two packages can have a class with same name.
• Exact Name of the class is identifed by its package
structure. << Fully Qualified Name>>
java.lang.String ; java.util.Arrays;
java.io.BufferedReader ; java.util.Date

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Creating Your Own Packages

• Packages are mirrored through directory structure.


• To create a package, First we have to create a
directory /directory structure that matches the
package hierarchy.
• To make a class belongs to a particular package
include the <<package>> statement as the first
statement of source file.
• Note that Outer classes can have public or package-
private scope. Nested Classes can have any scope
• A source .java file can have only one <<package>>
statement. Also note that only one class be public in
a source .java file.

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Creating Your Own Package :
Example
mypackage

S1,S2,S3 mypackageA S4,S5,S6 mypackageB

ABC DEG IJK XYZ

A,B,C D,E,F A,B,C,I,J,K X,Y,Z


Package ABC and IJK have three classes (A,B and C) with same name.
A class in ABC has name mypackage.mypackageA.ABC.A
A class in IJK has name mypackage.mypackageB.IJK.A
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Creating Your Own Package :
Example ….
Step 1: Create a Directory Structure That Matches Your
Package Structure

mypackage

mypackageA mypackageB

ABC DEG IJK XYZ

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Creating Your Own Package :
Example ….
Make class S1 belongs to mypackageA with public
scope
// File Name : S1.java
package mypackage.mypackageA;
public class S1
{
public S1( ) S1
{
System.out.println("This is Class S1");
} // End of Constructor
} // End of class S1
Name the source file as S1.java and compile it.
Store the generated S1.class file in mypackageA directory

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Creating Your Own Package :
Example ….
Make class S2 belongs to mypackageA with public
scope
// File Name : S2.java
package mypackage.mypackageA;
public class S2
{
public S2( ) S1 S2
{
System.out.println("This is Class S2");
} // End of Constructor
} // End of class S2

Name the source file as S2.java and compile it.


Store the generated S2.class file in mypackageA directory

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Creating Your Own Package :
Example ….
Make class A belongs to IJK with public scope

// File Name : A.java


package mypackage.mypackageB.IJK;
public class A
{
public A( ) S1,S2
{
System.out.println("This is Class A in IJK");
} // End of Constructor
} // End of class S2
Name the source file as A.java and compile it. A
Store the generated A.class file in IJK directory

<< Repeat the Same Procedure for Other classes >>


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Importing the Packages

• import statement allows the importing of package


• JRE looks at two places for user created packages
1. Under the current working directory from where you are
executing your program
2. At the location specified by CLASSPATH environment
variable
• Most ideal location for compiling/executing a program is
immediately above the package structure.

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Importing the Packages
Suppose you want to use the classes A and B from ABC package

// File Name : Test.java


import mypackage.mypackageA.ABC.*;
class Test
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
B b1 = new B();
C c1 = new C();
} // End of Method
} // End of class Test

Store the Test.java File in a location


that is immediately above the package
structure i.e. in a folder above
mypackage. Compile and Execute it
from there.
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What is the Error in the
Following Code?
import mypackage.mypackageA.ABC.*;
Import mypackage.mypackageB.IJK.*;
class Test
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
A a1 = new A();
} // End of Method
} // End of class Test

class A is present in both the imported packages ABC and IJK.


So class A has to referred via its fully qualified name.

mypackage.mypackageA.ABC.A a1 = new mypackage.mypackageA.ABC.A();


OR
mypackage.mypackageB.IJK.A a1 = new mypackage.mypackageB.IJK.A();
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Thank You

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