How is import done in Java?

Question

For instance

import org.apache.nutch.plugin.Extension,

though used many times,

I\'ve no much idea what is done essentially.

Answer 1

you can't have a directory named org.apache as a package. the compiler won't understand that name and will look for the directory structure org/apache when you import any class from that package.

also, do not mistake the Java import statement with the C #include preprocessor instruction. the import statement is, like they've said, a shorthand for you to type fewer characters when referring to a class name.