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package imports

Posted by Jody Brown on November 24, 2000 at 9:58 AM

Jiminh,

The .* "wildcard" import statement isn't capable of finding the contents of sub-packages, only the classes that exist within the package at that level. If you had the following classes available:-

this.example.Class1
this.example.Class2
this.example.continued.Class3

"import this.example.*" would only import Class1 and Class2. Class3 in this.example.continued would be ignored.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Jody