Rookie trying to make my own package

Question

Reading in a real good book - "Thinking in Java" by Bruce Eckel. Really helping me to understand better a lot of the stuff that I had in my Java course at school.
Got to a section where he's showing how to make your own packages. I'll lift directly:
Consider, for
example, creating an alias for System.out.println(�) to reduce
typing. This can be part of a package called tools:
//P.java
// The P.rint & P.rintln shorthand.
package com.bruceeckel.tools;
public class P {
public static void rint(String s) {
System.out.print(s);
public static void rintln(String s) {
System.out.println(s);
You can use this shorthand to print a
String either with a newline (P.rintln(�)) or without a
newline (P.rint(�)).
So, I cut and pasted right into the text editor I use to practice with, saved and compiled it in a subdirectory off of one of the directories in the CLASSPATH, followed with a little test program:
//ToolTest.java
import com.bruceeckel.tools.*;
public class ToolTest {
public static void main(String[] args) {
P.rintln("Available from now on!");
P.rintln("" + 100); // Force it to be a String
P.rintln("" + 100L);
P.rintln("" + 3.14159);
Here's the result of the compile:
C:\Thinking in Java\com\bruceeckel\tools>javac ToolTest.java
ToolTest.java:3: Package com.bruceeckel.tools not found in import.
import com.bruceeckel.tools.*;
^
1 error
C:\Thinking in Java\com\bruceeckel\tools>
At first I tried doing it on my own, making up my own package name, creating my own little source files, but got the same error. So I cut and pasted directly from the book, thinking surely it would work if I used Eckel's own code. Nope.
Any clue what's going wrong? I've checked the CLASSPATH carefully, it includes
C:\Thinki~1
Thanks
Felecha

Answer 1

Your classpath should include "C:\Thinking in Java", not C:\Thinki~1.
Also, your ToolTest.java should be in some other folder than "C:\Thinking in Java\com\bruceeckel\tools" - javac may act weird when it can find the to-be-imported classes in both the current folder and the classpath.
If ToolTest.java had been in the folder "C:\Thinking in Java" you wouldn't have needed to modify the classpath.