Java Projects - Second Edition

Managing projects

To the left of the IDE window, you can see the directory structure of the project. The IDE knows the different types of files and shows them in a way that is meaningful from the programming point of view. For example, it does not display Main.java as a filename. Instead, it displays Main and an icon that signals that Main is a class. It can also be an interface still in a file named Main.java, but, in that case, the icon will show that this is an interface. This is again done by the IDE continuously scanning and compiling the code.

The files are structured into subdirectories when we develop a Java code. These subdirectories follow the packaging structure of the code. Many times, in Java, we use compound and long package ...