Developers who are new to Java can sometimes have trouble with class and package naming. In fact, the introductory Java forums are filled with threads starting with questions about these areas of ...

In this blog post, I look at how Java code can use the Package class to access version information about a particular Java package’s specification and implementation.

Strictly speaking, it isn't possible to list the classes in a package. This is because a package is really nothing more than a namespace (eg com.epicapplications.foo.bar), and any jar-file in the ...