Thanks Conor,
> >
> > Strictly, that's not true. The only part of the Java development kit that
> > requires that structure is the javadoc.
>
> you may want to read the section "SEARCHING FOR TYPES" in
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/tooldocs/solaris/javac.html
>
> When javac does such searching, it will only work if the source files are
> laid out in directories according to their packages.
>
> Also, such organisation is strongly suggested in the language spec
> http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/packages.doc.html#375
> 46
I was ignoring this behaviour as the example was so trivial, and for the
reason below. Using Ant, **/*.java tends to be a "normal" way of working.
I should have probably been somewhat more specific.
My bad ;-)
> Yes it will work but you lose the automatic searching for types by javac
> described above. Note that if you are using Ant, it will pass all of your
> files to the compiler, all of the time, which is why the compiler does not
> go into it search mode.
Agreed. Sorry for any confusion that I may (hmmm, have) caused.
Cheers,
-- jon
