Chapter 9. Packages and Visibility
In this chapter, we’ll look at the “how” and “why” of packages. Java uses the term package to mean a collection of related .class files in a directory. Speaking very strictly, packages and classes do not have to be directories and files. The Java Language Specification is written to allow implementations that store source code in a database or any other kind of repository, and some IDEs do that. However, “package ...
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