Help! With Packages...I'm new & frustrated!

Question

In the following directory structure, I have 2 classes, a DBHandler class that hits a database and a GetData class uses the DBHandler class to get specific data. I want to put both of these into a WebSiteClasses package. When I try to package both of them to the WebSiteClasses package, the DBHandler class compiles just fine. But when I try to compile the GetData class (that uses the DBHandler class) I get an error stating the following:
"cannot resolve symbol
symbol : class DBHandler".
My code for the two java files is below this directory structure. I'm rather new at this and any help would be greatly appreciated
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- tomcat
- bin
- classes
        - WebSiteClasses
                DBHandler.class
                DBHandler.java
                GetData.class
                GetData.java
- common
- conf
- lib
- logs
- server
- temp
- work
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JAVA Files ------>>>>
DBHandler.java:
package WebSiteClasses;
import java.sql.*;
public class DBHandler{
     public ResultSet getData(String sql){
               Connection cn = null;
               Statement st = null;
               ResultSet rs = null;
               try{
                         Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
                         String url = "jdbc:odbc:FileToFile";
                         String user = "";
                         String pwd = "";
                         cn = DriverManager.getConnection(url,user,pwd);
                         st = cn.createStatement();
                         rs = st.executeQuery(sql);
                    }catch(ClassNotFoundException e){
                         e.printStackTrace();
                    }catch(SQLException e){
                         e.printStackTrace();
                    return rs;
GetData.java:
package WebSiteClasses;
import java.sql.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class GetData{
     DBHandler db = new DBHandler();
     String[] monthList;
     public GetData() throws Exception{
          getTrans();
     public ArrayList getTrans() throws Exception{
          ResultSet rs = db.getData("select distinct Transaction from tblTransactReport");
          ArrayList list = new ArrayList();
          try{
               while (rs.next()){
                    String Transaction = rs.getString("Transaction");
                    list.add(Transaction);
          }catch (SQLException e){e.printStackTrace();}
          return list;

Answer 1

"...Everywhere I've read about packages, in books or on line tutorials, merely states the obvious...create a folder and then name that folder in a package statement in the JAVA program..."
Not so obvious, apparently.
I don't know about a comprehensive reference - explaining CLASSPATH shouldn't take a 1,000 page book.
I think it's important to understand the connection between the package names, the directory structure, the fully-resolved class name, and the way that javac.exe and java.exe go looking for classes. Maybe you need to look past the obvious and think about this for a while longer.
If you have a class X with package a.b.c, do you understand what the directory structure must look like? Where should the X.class file be? If you're using a command shell, what directory should you navigate to in order to compile X.java, and where should X.class end up when you're finished? When you try to run your new X.class, how do you invoke it in java.exe?
If you can answer all those, you're in better shape.
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