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Package in Java

A Java package is a collection of related classes, interfaces, and sub-packages, which can be built-in or user-defined. The Java API provides a library of prewritten classes for various functionalities, and packages help in organizing these classes while preventing naming collisions and providing access protection. To access packages, one can use the import keyword in three ways, and package naming conventions suggest using lowercase and organizational domain names.

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Package in Java

A Java package is a collection of related classes, interfaces, and sub-packages, which can be built-in or user-defined. The Java API provides a library of prewritten classes for various functionalities, and packages help in organizing these classes while preventing naming collisions and providing access protection. To access packages, one can use the import keyword in three ways, and package naming conventions suggest using lowercase and organizational domain names.

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Package in Java

A java package is a group of similar types of classes, interfaces and sub-packages.


Built-in Packages (packages from the Java API)
User-defined Packages (create your own packages)

The Java API is a library of prewritten classes, that are free to use, included in the Java Development Environment.
The library contains components for managing input, database programming, and much much more. The complete list can be found
at Oracles website: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/.

The library is divided into packages and classes. Meaning you can either import a single class (along with its methods and
attributes), or a whole package that contain all the classes that belong to the specified package.
To use a class or a package from the library, you need to use the import keyword:

Advantage of Java Package


1) Java package is used to categorize the classes and interfaces so that they can be easily maintained.
2) Java package provides access protection.
3) Java package removes naming collision.
How to access package from another package?
There are three ways to access the package from outside the package.
1. import package.*;
2. import package.classname;
3. fully qualified name.
Package Naming Convention
Package name must be in lower case that avoids conflict with the name of classes and interfaces.
Organizations used their internet domain name to define their package names. For example, com.puneet.mypackage.
Sometimes, the organization also uses the region after the company name to name the package. For
example, com.puneet.region.mypackage.
We use underscore in the package name if the domain name contains hyphen or other special characters or package names
begin with a digit or reserved keyword.
Domain Name Package Name Prefix
Hyphenated-name.example.org org.example.hyphenated_name
Example.int int_.example
123name.example.com com.example._123name

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