Help with Java compilation error

[sailaja cherukuri]

what i did is i wrote first 2 progs with out main method it will compile ...so these 2 programs can be used my other classes..
so i wrote one more prog as PremierSearch... to call these 2 methods..
the first 2 progs it compiled ...
so my prob is for the 3rd prog i am getting 2 errors.. so how to overcome these errors...

public class InternetSearchEngine {
static void search() {
System.out.println("Found 20 results on Web");
}
}
...........
public class DirectorySearchEngine {
static void search() {
System.out.println("Found 10 results on Novel Directory");
}
}

...............

public class PremierSearch {
public static void main(String args[]) {
search();
InternetSearchEngine.search();
DirectorySearchEngine.search();
System.out.println(" Search Completed ");
}
static void search() {
System.out.println("Found 5 results in Local");
}
}

PremierSearch.java:6: error: cannot find symbol
InternetSearchEngine.search();

symbol: variable DirectorySearchEngine
location: class PremierSearch
2 errors

[Mansukhdeep Thind]

Please use code tags and properly indented code like I mentioned in a reply to your previous post. Can't understand why you should be getting these errors. Nothing looks odd to me. When are you getting these errors? When trying to compile the 3rd source file is it? In what order are you compiling?

[sailaja cherukuri]

i am writing the code in notepad ........... i am not using eclipss etc.... i am sryy frm the next prgm i will use eclipss ... thankuuu

[Mansukhdeep Thind]

I never told you that you should use eclipse. If you are a beginner, please use notepad++ or some other text editor but not an IDE. Why are you saying sorry? What I was asking you to do is simply to paste code in tags as follows:

public class InternetSearchEngine {
	static void search() {
		System.out.println("Found 20 results on Web");
	}
}

----------------------------------------------------
public class DirectorySearchEngine {
	static void search() {
		System.out.println("Found 10 results on Novel Directory");
	}
}

-------------------------------------------------------

public class PremierSearch {
	public static void main(String args[]) {
		search();
		InternetSearchEngine.search();
		DirectorySearchEngine.search();
		System.out.println(" Search Completed ");
	}
	static void search() {
		System.out.println("Found 5 results in Local");
	}
}

Now please explain when are you getting the above errors.

[Lalit Mehra]

Hi sailaja,

Are all three classes you mentioned in the same package ???

[sailaja cherukuri]

package example;

class calculator
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
System.out.println("this is a package example");
}
}

[sailaja cherukuri]

the above prob i need to compile as javac example\calculator.java

i am trying to compile a class that uses package........ but i am getting an error

file not found: example\calculator.java.......

[Stuart A. Burkett]

sailaja cherukuri wrote:the above prob i need to compile as javac example\calculator.java

i am trying to compile a class that uses package........ but i am getting an error

file not found: example\calculator.java.......

Does the directory you are running javac from contain a directory called example and does that directory contain a file called calculator.java ?

[sailaja cherukuri]

yes .... the directory is example... in that directory calculator.java is a filee........ i have to execute class in that directoryy...

[Mansukhdeep Thind]

But from where / which directory are you executing this command?

[Ishan Pandya]

sailaja cherukuri wrote:the above prob i need to compile as javac example\calculator.java

i am trying to compile a class that uses package........ but i am getting an error

file not found: example\calculator.java.......

Compiling the java code from this command requires you get into the directory which is just above the example.

And can you show the directory structure of the 3 classes that you wrote above?
As i see all the three classes should be in same package as the modifiers of the methods you are using in the PremierSearch are package private.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Please avoid misspelt words; people who did not grow up speaking English will find prob directoryy sryy etc very difficult to understand.