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  1. 08-07-2009, 07:10 PM #1
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    Hi,

    I created a simple program where I wanted to use the GeneralPath class which is found in java.awt.geom.GeneralPath. At first I only imported java.awt.*, but when my program couldn't compile, I explicitly imported java.awt.geom.GeneralPath. When I did this, my program worked without any problems. My question is, why did I have to explicitly import this class, when the .* at the end of java.awt refers to all of it's sub-packages and subclasses? Surely it should also include the GeneralPath class?

    Thanks in advance :)
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    because importing awt.* does not import awt.geom.*
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