Specifications

Sun Services

Java™ Programming Language

Module 2, slide 19 of 26

The package Statement

• Basic syntax of the package statement is:

package

<top_pkg_name>[

<sub_pkg_name>]*

;

• Examples of the statement are:

package shipping.gui.reportscreens;

• Specify the package declaration at the beginning of the

source file.

• Only one package declaration per source file.

• If no package is declared, then the class is placed into

the default package.

• Package names must be hierarchical and separated by

dots.