A java package is a group of similar types of classes, interfaces and sub-packages.

Package in java can be categorized in two form, built-in package and user-defined package.

There are many built-in packages such as java, lang, awt, javax, swing, net, io, util, sql etc.

Here, we will have the detailed learning of creating and using user-defined packages.

Java package is used to categorize the classes and interfaces so that they can be easily maintained.
Java package provides access protection.
Java package removes naming collision.

package mypack;  
public class Simple{  
 public static void main(String args[]){  
    System.out.println("Welcome to package");  
   }  
}

There are three ways to access the package from outside the package.

1- import package.*;

2- import package.classname;

3- fully qualified name.

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