Source File

[Rana Thakur]

"If there is no public class or interface defined within a source code file, then the file must take on a name that is different that its classes and interfaces."
However the fillowing code compiles and runs fine. Am I missing out something??
//File:: test.java
class test {
public static void main (String args[]){
System.out.println ("hello");
}
}

[Bala Arul]

Hi,
If there is no public class or interface defined in a source file, then the source file can get any name.
Arul.

[Siva Prasad]

If you have two or more classes in a source file and one of them is public and the other or not, then the file name should the the class name which is declared as coderanch.
If you try to declare more than one public class in a single source file, the compiler will give an error to write each public class in a different file.
Siva Prasad

[Seema Das]

Hi Rana,
It looks like the file can take any name. It can be one of the class' name too. I tried following with Name.java and B.java and both ways it works fine.
class A {
int i;
}
class B {
int j;
}
class C {
int k;
}
Thanks

[Rana Thakur]

Hi,
Thanks. What was bugging me is that couple of places I read that
"If there is no public class or interface defined within a source code file, then the file must take on a name that is different that its classes and interfaces."
But it doesn't look like that. Guess I must have mixed up.
Thanks a lot to all of you.