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On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 18:12:08 -0000, Jon Skeet
<skeet@pobox.com> wrote:

>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.

So you're implying the 'import <package>.*' statement does
nothing? If you have the following 2 imports the compiler
gives an ambiguous reference error if a 'Date' object is
declared without specifying the package.

import java.sql.*;
import java.util.*;

>
>> 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 >....
>> }


Ron Albright
greenbird(at)KILLSPAM.pobox.com
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