Jt Walker

Thanks for the excellent help. I was led astray by SCJP 6 ( Raposa ) page 19 where it states

You might have also noticed that the source code files in \src use the same directory
structure as their package names. This is not a requirement for your .java files; they can
be stored in any directory.

Moved the source to pkg1/Qwerty.java and everything is peachy.

I've been struggling with this for a day or two now and cannot seem to grasp what is going on.

The following code allows me to create a reference to the public class JOptionPane. As the wildcard import includes all the types in the package.the full class name is not needed.
// File : MessDialog.java import javax.swing.*; public class MessDialog { JOptionPane jop; }

If I create a public class in a pkg :
// File : Qwerty.java package pkg1; public class Qwerty { }

and then try to create a reference the compiler chokes :
// File : Asdf.java import pkg1.*; public class Asdf { Qwerty qwe; }

Sample run :
scarlet@cloudbase:~/Java/WorkSpace$ echo $CLASSPATH scarlet@cloudbase:~/Java/WorkSpace$ javac -version javac 1.7.0_07 scarlet@cloudbase:~/Java/WorkSpace$ javac -d . MessDialog.java scarlet@cloudbase:~/Java/WorkSpace$ javac -d . Qwerty.java scarlet@cloudbase:~/Java/WorkSpace$ javac -d . Asdf.java Asdf.java:6: error: cannot access Qwerty Qwerty qwe; ^ bad source file: ./Qwerty.java file does not contain class Qwerty Please remove or make sure it appears in the correct subdirectory of the sourcepath. scarlet@cloudbase:~/Java/WorkSpace$
I can't figure out why it fails and why is it referring to the source file ? The file pkg1/Qwerty.class exists. CLASSPATH is not set and so includes the current directory.