Packages (cont.)

• Class identified by its package name, followed by the class name
• Use the import statement to access class variables and methods without full qualification

  import java.applet.Applet;
  import java.util.*;

• First form accesses a single class within a package
• Second form accesses all classes within a package
• The package java.lang is always imported implicitly
  • considered part of the language definition
  • String class is actually java.lang.String