7.1. Package Members
The members of a package are its subpackages and all the top level class types (§7.6, §8) and top level interface types (§9) declared in all the compilation units (§7.3) of the package.
For example, in the Java SE platform API:
• The package java has subpackages awt, applet, io, lang, net, and util, but no compilation units.
• The package java.awt has a subpackage named image, as well as a number of compilation units containing declarations of class and interface types.
If the fully qualified name (§6.7) of a package is P, and Q is a subpackage of P, then P.Q is the fully qualified name of the subpackage, and furthermore denotes a package.
A package may not contain two members of the same name, or a compile-time error results. ...
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