Class path Doubt again.

[Abhi vijay]

The directory structure is :
a
B.java
xcom
A.java,A.class

  package xcom;
public class A 
{

}  

This is a file in package xcom.

 //import xcom.*;
public class B extends A
{
}
   

This is a file in a directory named a.

Now B needs A.class for its compilation. Since A is in xcom package, it is xcom.A
So I made the current directory as a and javac -cp . B.java. But this dosent work ??? But when I use the import in class B it works fine. Isnt it one and the same?

[Abhi vijay]

Ok, I understood.

Whenever there is an import statement no need to mention it in the cp.

[Punit Singh]

For the first case, when you are not using import than use fully qualified name of class A.

   public class B extends xcom.A  
 {  
 }  

[Abhi vijay]

Thanks, Punit.