Question

I’m trying to input information in Java console application but I can’t seem to run it.

This is how my Java file looks like:

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public class Ovning1_3 
{

     public static void main(String args[])
     {

         String name;
         System.out.println("Enter your name");
         name = Keyboard.readString();
         System.out.println(name);      
    }

}

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But I get the error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problem: 
Keyboard cannot be resolved
at Ovning1_3.main(Ovning1_3.java:9)

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I have a keyboard.class file in my source folder.
I’m using Eclipse with Ubuntu.

Answer 1

Unresolved compilation problem:  

means that the code could not be compiled.

You have to import Keyboard, something like

import uitl.Keyboard

When you use classes from a different package (not the same package of the current class), you have to import the class. If the class is also in the same package then you need not import.

Classes are generally grouped into Packages.
How do you know the package? Go to the first like of the class. This should be something like package xyz meaning that the current class in the xyz package. The class will be in a folder called xyz then (This is the rule for packages: when you want to have a class in a package, say abc.xyz then the class should have a package declaration – the first line of the code – to be package abc.xyz and the file should be present in a folder xyz which in then should be in a folder abc.