Thread: how to have 2 packages in project

hi i have writen 2 programes and i want to kick on off when the other finishes but cant seem to find a way to get it working basically i have
package a;

imports

class{main}
class{}
class{}
package b

imports

class{main}
class{}
class{}

the problem is package b cant be added to white space after first package so how would one run a package from another package
the error it gives is :
class, interface, or enum expected

Originally Posted by bean

the problem is package b cant be added to white space after first package so how would one run a package from another package

What do you mean added to white space?

Originally Posted by bean

the error it gives is :
class, interface, or enum expected

Are you trying to include everything in one file?

Originally Posted by jps

What do you mean added to white space?
Are you trying to include everything in one file?

sorry white space as in at the end of the last class in first package and yup trying to have all in one file.
obiuosly a soultion is combine the to packages and have main in package b just a method to run that packages classes however unfortunitly an error in first package that i ould never solve required me to system exit(0) out of first package so i want to kick off second package just before system.exit(0) which is a bit messy but the only option i can think to solve my issue as if i kick it off in same package then system exit will kill it

When you declare a package, you are saying "This file will be inside this folder" where the "file" is the body of text you are typing on and "folder" is the folder the file is saved in. You can not tell the compiler to look for the file in two folders. This is why it shows as an error. How would the compiler choose which folder to actually look in?

By convention all Java classes should be defined in their own file. Do some research on Java classes and packages and organize your project to follow convention

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As far as System.exit(0) and starting a second package, I suggest you also read the API on System.exit to see what happens.

the solution was Java shutdown hooks let that package exit(0) and run the second after compiling it from terminal with Java shutdown hooks there very usefull