Description Carl Osipov 2003-12-10 09:08:07 EST

Unlike the JDK javac compiler, the eclipse compiler has odd behavior when 
dealing with source files that declare a package name but reside in the top 
level directory(as children of the project directory). For instance given a 
source file:

package example;
public class Main {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		System.out.println("Hello World");
	}
}

stored under as ${WORKSPACE}\test\Main.java where the test directory is a name 
of a Java project, the compiler generates binaries in ${WORKSPACE}
\test\Main.class. In contrast the default javac compiler generates binaries 
that resolve to the appropriate package name: ${WORKSPACE}
\test\example\Main.class

An obvious workaround doesn't work correctly: trying to specify example as an 
output directory(Java Build Path setting in the project properties) actually 
copies the entire contents of the project directory to the output directory.