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What is a package in java?​

Answer 1

QUESTION:What is a package in java?

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A PACKAGE IS A COLLECTION OF DIFFERENT CLASSES AND THEIR FUNCTIONS WHICH CAN BE USED IN A PROGRAM..

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Answer 2

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Packages In Java

Package in Java is a mechanism to encapsulate a group of classes, sub packages and interfaces. Packages are used for:

Preventing naming conflicts. For example there can be two classes with name Employee in two packages, college.staff.cse.Employee and college.staff.ee.Employee

Making searching/locating and usage of classes, interfaces, enumerations and annotations easier

Providing controlled access: protected and default have package level access control. A protected member is accessible by classes in the same package and its subclasses. A default member (without any access specifier) is accessible by classes in the same package only.

Packages can be considered as data encapsulation (or data-hiding).

All we need to do is put related classes into packages. After that we can simply write a import a class from existing packages and use it in our program. A packages is container of group of related classes where some of the classes are accessible are exposed and others are kept for internal purpose.
We can reuse existing classes from the packages as many time as we need it in our program.

How packages work?

Package names and directory structure are closely related. For example if a package name is college.staff.cse, then there are three directories, college, staff and cse such that cse is present in staff and staff is present college. Also, the directory college is accessible through CLASSPATHvariable, i.e., path of parent directory of college is present in CLASSPATH. The idea is to make sure that classes are easy to locate.
Package naming conventions : Packages are named in reverse order of domain names, i.e., org.geeksforgeeks.practice. For example, in a college, the recommended convention is college.tech.cse, college.tech.ee, college.art.history, etc.

Adding a class to a Package : We can add more classes to an created package by using package name at the top of the program and saving it in the package directory. We need a new java file to define a public class, otherwise we can add the new class to an existing .java file and recompile it.

Subpackages: Packages that are inside another package are the subpackages. These are not imported by default, they have to imported explicitly. Also, members of a subpackage have no access privileges, i.e., they are considered as different package for protected and default access specifiers.


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