Originally posted by Ilja Preuss:
The packages foo and foo.bar are just two different packages, with no special relationship at all.
Well JLS clearly says,
If the fully qualified name (�6.7) of a package is P, and Q is a subpackage of P, then P.Q is the fully qualified name of the subpackage.
[Ref: JLS Third Edition 7.1 Package Members] Similarly package java has subpackages awt,
applet, io, lang, net, and util
Naseem
[ August 10, 2006: Message edited by: Naseem Khan ]