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Java Packages: A Beginner's Guide

Packages allow organization of classes and interfaces in Java. There are two types of packages - built-in packages that are part of the Java API, and user-defined packages that are created by the programmer. Built-in packages provide functionality for common tasks like input/output, collections, networking, and more. User-defined packages group related classes and allow them to be reused across programs by specifying the package name.

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Java Packages: A Beginner's Guide

Packages allow organization of classes and interfaces in Java. There are two types of packages - built-in packages that are part of the Java API, and user-defined packages that are created by the programmer. Built-in packages provide functionality for common tasks like input/output, collections, networking, and more. User-defined packages group related classes and allow them to be reused across programs by specifying the package name.

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Packages

A package as the name suggests is a pack(group) of classes, interfaces and other


packages. In java we use packages to organize our classes and interfaces. We have
two types of packages in Java: built-in packages and the packages we can create
(also known as user defined package). In this guide we will learn what are
packages, what are user-defined packages in java and how to use them.

In java we have several built-in packages, for example when we need user input,
we import a package like this:

import [Link]

Here:
→ java is a top level package
→ util is a sub package
→ and Scanner is a class which is present in the sub package util.

Types of packages in Java

Types of packages:
As mentioned in the beginning of this guide that we have two types of packages in
java.
1) User defined package: The package we create is called user-defined package.
2) Built-in package: The already defined package like [Link].*, [Link].* etc are
known as built-in packages.

Built-in Packages
These packages consist of a large number of classes which are a part of Java
[Link] of the commonly used built-in packages are:
1) [Link]: Contains language support classes(e.g classed which defines
primitive data types, math operations). This package is automatically imported.
2) [Link]: Contains classed for supporting input / output operations.
3) [Link]: Contains utility classes which implement data structures like Linked
List, Dictionary and support ; for Date / Time operations.
4) [Link]: Contains classes for creating Applets.
5) [Link]: Contain classes for implementing the components for graphical user
interfaces (like button , ;menus etc).
6) [Link]: Contain classes for supporting networking operations.

User-defined packages
These are the packages that are defined by the user. First we create a directory
myPackage (name should be same as the name of the package). Then create the
MyClass inside the directory with the first statement being the package names.

package letmecalculate;
public class Calculator {
 public int add(int a, int b){
 return a+b;
 }
 public static void main(String args[]){
 Calculator obj = new Calculator();
 [Link]([Link](10, 20));
 }
 }

Now lets see how to use this package in another program.

 import [Link];
 public class Demo{
 public static void main(String args[]){
 Calculator obj = new Calculator();
 [Link]([Link](100, 200));
 }
 }

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