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Ron Albright <moron(at)pobox.com> <Ron Albright <moron(at)pobox.com>> 
wrote:
> I just switched to JBuilder 6 Ent from JBuilder 5. Same
> project using Sun JDK 1.3.1-b24 in both cases to build. On
> JBuilder 6 the following class only builds if the explicit
> import of base class
> com.greenbird.persistence.PersistentRdbmsObject is
> uncommented. com.greenbird.persistence is a required
> library. What's even weirder is that there are several other
> classes from the com.greenbird.persistence lib being
> referenced in the class definition. Why is an explicit
> import of the base class required?

Because otherwise the compiler has no idea what you mean by 
"PersistentRdbmsObject". There could be any number of classes with that 
name in various packages.

> Why would JBuilder have anything to do with this when the build 
> is being done using a Sun JDK?

I don't see why it should ever have built in anything else, frankly.
 
> package com.greenbird.persistence.test;
> 
> import java.sql.*;
> import java.lang.reflect.Field;
> 
> // Builds only if the following line is uncommented
> //import com.greenbird.persistence.PersistentRdbmsObject;
> 
> import com.greenbird.persistence.*;
> 
> public class Jdbc_Test extends PersistentRdbmsObject
> {
> ....< Class definition includes references to
> com.greenbird.persistence.PersistenceException >....
> }

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