Command line package problem

Question

Am using this exercise to create packages:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/interpack/QandE/packages-answers.html
I'm on Unix Solaris and have created /home/me/mygame directory as instructed. Then three subdirectories with their files:
mygame/client/Client.java
mygame/server/Server.java
mygame/shared/Utilities.java
Using their source code for each .java file, I sit in mygame directory and compile with
javac shared/Utilities.java
which works to produce Utilities.class
But after that my compiles don't work. Two examples:
javac -classpath . server/Server.java
javac -classpath . client/Client.java
returns in second case:
client/Client.java:5: Class mygame.shared.Utilities not found in import.
import mygame.shared.Utilities;
1 error
prompt% head client/Client.java
package mygame.client;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.util.*;
import mygame.shared.Utilities;
public class Client extends Thread {
Socket clientSocket = null;
public Client(Socket s) {
Can you help? I'd really like to work in packages from the command line.
By the way, the IDE JDeveloper 9i doesn't have any problem with packages, as you'd expect.
More info:
The error meaning it looked but it couldn't find Class mygame.shared.Utilities, I'm sure.
java -version
java version "1.2.2"
Solaris VM (build Solaris_JDK_1.2.2_05a, native threads, sunwjit)
path (. /home/me/mygame /home/me blah/blah/blah)
Thanks,
Chuck Williams

Answer 1

Why don't you try everything from the directory above mygame?
You'll have to adjust your commands accordingly, but I think your problems may go away.