Nesting packages?

[slate ledge]

Hello I am very new to Java, and am trying to figure out how to structure my packages. I am a C# developer, so I am used to namespaces.
Every time I try to nest a package it just goes into the src/ directory and doesn't nest at all 🤔
(I'm using Java 19 SDK with Eclipse IDE)

My hierarchy looks like this:
src/
languages
Main.java

And I want it to look something like this:

src/
languages
Main.java
languages.models
Language.java

Right clicking the languages package to create it did not work, nor did it work when I did a "Go Into" then created the new package.

Thanks in advance!

[obtuse sky]

<@&987246527741304832> please have a look, thanks.

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[surreal fable]

in Eclipse, you should write the full name in the dialog

Create Package (or something like this) -> write "languages"
Create Package -> write "languages.models"

the difference between C#'s namespaces and Java's packages, is that packages are obligatory to follow a folder hierarchy, while in C# you can have folders not corresponding to the namespace hierarchy

in Visual Studio, when you create folder structures, namespaces are automatically created based on the folders hierarchy

other thing in java (I dunno about C#): you should have a "canonical package", this package represents your app name

example:
org.xqgamers.appname
com.renankogan.mylib
(the name convention as you can see is a "inversed url")

this is important, because packages are what java uses to disambiguate between two classes with same name

so, your folder structure should be:

/src/
----/(org or com or net or other domain)/
    ----/(your name or your company)/
        ----/(name of you app or library)/
            ----Main.java
            ----/languages/
                ----/models/
                    ----Language.java

also, this server is sponsored by JetBrains , so we recommend you using IntellijIDEA instead of Eclipse

[slate ledge]

Thank you for the help 😁 I'll check it out

[obtuse sky]

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