•Group
of related classes.
•Specified
by package statement.
•Fewer
restrictions on access among each other;
–if
class is called public, then it is
visible to all classes
–if no
visibility modifier is specified, its visibility is termed as “package
visibility” and is somewhere between:
•private
(other classes in package cannot access it) and
•public
(other classes outside package can also access it)
•Package
locations can be specified by the CLASSPATH
environmental
variables.
•The import statement helps to get multiple
packages. It saves typing.