PRC Converter and Packages

I have successfully created a couple of trivial examples using MIDP and the PRC Converter. These were small, monolithic examples without a package declaration. However, in creating a more complicated midlet, I have begun to use a package, say org.mycompany.project to organize the classes. These midlets run fine on the emulators in the J2ME Wireless Toolkit, (Phone, Pager, etc) but do not execute under the Palm OS Emulator. I therefore hypothesize that I have missed something in the JAD/JAR to PRC converstion process.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in Advance.

Just a thought...maybe you forgot to give the correct
package info when you were supplying the name of the
class to start out with on program execution?
RolandYes, I have specified the package.ClassName in the J2ME Wireless toolkit MIDlet settings. For example: com.domain.project.StartUpClassName.
I have at least succeeded with a work-around(?), though. By not including a package declaration in my class definitions, AND jar'ing the classes into a single jar, I have been able to successfully execute on both the J2ME WTK emulators and POSE. I am supposing that because the classes are in the same jar, I am able to avoid creating a package to organize them. Until I find a solution to utilize packages, I will proceed without them.
Thanks,
Barry

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