Complete Guide To Package's in Java

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Introduction

A package is a namespace that organizes a set of related classes and interfaces to provide access protection and namespace management.You can think of packages as being similar to different folders on your computer. Software written in the Java programming language can be composed of hundreds or thousands of individual classes, it makes sense to keep things organized by placing related classes and interfaces into packages. JDK has set of previously defined packages consisting of relevant classes.E.g IO package contains all the classes related to input output. Moreover, many times when we get a chance to work on a small project, one thing we intend to do is to put all java files into one single directory. It is quick, easy and harmless. However if our small project gets bigger, and the number of files is increasing, putting all these files into the same directory would be a nightmare for us. In java we can avoid this sort of problem by using Packages.   more...