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Asked: 2026-05-16T16:24:22+00:00

I have two Java classes giveMyOb and dataConn declared in the same directory. Both

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I have two Java classes “giveMyOb” and “dataConn” declared in the same directory. Both are public classes. “giveMyOb” has a static method “getMine()”. Inside dataConn, I called the static method as 

giveMyOb.getMine();

When I try to compile dataConn.java, the following error is returned.

“Cannot find symbol

symbol: variable giveMyOb
location : class dataConn
giveMyOb.getMine(); “

It used to work earlier. But is not working now. Why is that?

Additional Information: JDK 1.6. Windows 7. 64 bit.

Update(30 days after the question): When compiled from Eclipse, the classes are referenced and it works. But the same won’t work when compiling from command line. I was unable to figure out the reason and nothing logical comes to my mind!

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    javac -classpath . *.java

    ought to create both .class files at the same time. It’s more complicated by packages. I’m assuming you have none.

    Learn the Sun Java coding conventions. You aren’t following them with those class names. They should start with a capital letter.

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