Thread: Package confusion

We have been supplied with a bunch of example code files for an assignment. Each file has

package FabricCuts

at the top. I can't get any of the files to run if I have the package stuff at the top, but if I remove the line from each file they run fine.

What I've tried:
1. Creating a new directory FabricCuts and moving all files inside.

Here is the error I see with a bit of context.

> ls
Garment.java          GarmentFile.java      GarmentFileTest.java  Piece.java            PieceTest1.java       TextFile.java         TextFileTest.java
> javac PieceTest1.java Piece.java 
> java PieceTest1
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: PieceTest1 (wrong name: FabricCuts/PieceTest1)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:620)
        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:260)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:56)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:276)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)
>

As I said everything works fine if I remove the package line from the top of each file, but I'd rather know how it is supposed to work.

Thanks.

Thanks copeg, I did stumble across that link, that's what tipped me off about creating a folder.

I'm using the command line to compile and run classes. The commands I used (javac, java) can be seen in my original post.

If it's relevent I'm using the diablo-jdk package on FreeBSD 8-STABLE

Ah ha. Thank you very much.