Package can't find other classes in package

Question

Code Snippets:
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package fordsec;
// Imports
import java.sql.*;
import java.math.*;
public class AdminUsers {
public int createSingleUser() throws SQLException {
Connection tmpconn = null;
int cnt = 0;
try {
OraConn myconn = new OraConn();
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Javac error
oracle@eccis72-LOGMON-> javac AdminUsers.java
AdminUsers.java:107: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : class OraConn
location: class fordsec.AdminUsers
OraConn myconn = new OraConn();
OraConn is in the package directory,
OraConn is a member of the package,
OraConn compiles ok,
OraConn as a default () constructor
It appears the AdminUsers Class is not importing the package and making the members available to this class.
Any Ideas (I hope this is simple)

Answer 1

When calling javac, you can pass it the exact diretctory and filename of class AdminUsers. But still it will not try and locate another class of the same package in that same directory, if it's not on the classpath - even if that class is assumed to be in the same package.
That means, the "base directory" should be included in the environment variable CLASSPATH or - if you use the -cp Option on the command prompt that starts javac, you should include it there.
In your case, this base directory would be the one containing the directory fordsec (which has the name of the package). Javac will find class OraConn in the fordsec subdirectory of ANY base directory listed in the classpath - it will merrily accept the first one (according to the sequence of directorynames in the classpath) that happens to contain a fordsec which contains an OraConn.
If it finds just the sourcefile OraConn.java, it will compile it first in order to produce OraConn.class in the directory where it found OraConn.java. If it already finds some OraConn.class anywhere on the classpath, it will not look for an OraConn.java; the compiler always verifies the existence of a referenced type by finding its .class file along the classpath (so if it cannot find or produce OraConn.class it cannot successfully compile AdminUsers either).