Package and class path

Question

for two yrs i am trying to get package right but no result
i am using window 98
i have my jdk in d:\jdk1.2\bin; and this works fine if i do not try to use package;somtimes it works well half way with package!
suppose i want to create a package called rubberband and put classes in it
i created a folder called rubberband in d:\ and then
package rubberband;
import java.awt.*;
public class RubberbandTest extends Frame{}
class RubberbandTestPanel {}
class Colorchoice{}
this is one unit
and there are other classes
package rubberband;
import java.awt.*;
abstract class Rubberband {}
package rubberband;
import java.awt.*;
class RubberbandPanel extends Rubberband {}
and so on
i opened executive.bat and added to class path as follows:
path:d:\rubberband\bin;before the already existing d:\jdk1.2\bin;
then when i come to compile and run the program i have problems
like:class so and so not found
please help please step by step tell me what to do

Answer 1

Another sample might answer your "different location" question.
Suppose program YourProg in package yourPkg located in directory C:\javaprogs needs to access a class file ExtraClass in package extraPkg in directory C:\differentDir.
1) Of course the source file must exist in file
C:\javaprogs\yourPkg\YourProg.java
and
C:\differentDir\extraPkg\ExtraClass.class must exist.
2) Inside the YourProg source, you must import ExtraClass:
import extraPkg.ExtraClass;
3) To compile YourProg, you must include location of extraPkg.ExtraClass in the classpath (or the compiler will complain about the inport line above):
(a -- from C:\javaprogs directory): javac -classpath C:\differentDir yourPkg\YourProg.java
(b -- from any directory): javac -classpath C:\javaprogs;C:\differentDir yourPkg\YourProg.java
4) To run YourProg (assuming it contains a main method), you must include all locations in classpath:
(a -- from C:\javaprogs directory): java -classpath .;C:\differentDir yourPkg.YourProg
(b -- from any directory): java -classpath C:\javaprogs;C:\differentDir yourPkg.YourProg
If you get a NoClassDefFoundError, that means that the java was run without the proper location included in the classpath passed to the -classpath argument. The -classpath argument should be ';'-separated and contain no spaces (so if a long directory name contains space you should enclose in double quotes, as this example:
java -cp "C:\Program Files\somedir;C:\anotherdir" NameOfAClass