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Package

Posted by Parthipan Satchi on July 26, 2001 at 7:11 PM

I have the following questions:
1) How does JVM access the standard packages like java.util ?
does CLASSPATH have to be defined for it to use these packages?

2) In UNIX we can define CLASSPATH by "setenv CLASSPATH Directory"
In DOS we can put CLASSPATH = directory in autoext.bat
Is this correct
3) If CLASSPATH is defined then what does the following line do?
package mypackage;
Let's assume the class name is Example. Then, does it create a package named mypackage and include the Class file example.class as part of mypackage. If so how do we execute the class file that is part of mypackage?