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Troubleshooting Packages

Posted by Matt on July 18, 2001 at 12:18 PM

I was trying to run Sun's mygame.zip package example (see http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/interpack/QandE/packages-answers.html). I was able to compile each of the three classes: Utilities.java, Client.java, and Server.java. However, when I tried to execute Server.class, which imports Client.class and Server.class (each of which are in different packages), I got a class not found exception. I checked the classpath and it was set up correctly. That is, it pointed to the directory, "Sample Java Code", which contained the mygame directory. If I commented out the statement "package mygame.server;", it worked.

Why does this occur? How can I fix the problem without commenting out the package statement? Is there a problem with my Java 1.3 installation?