CODEWITHSUNDEEP
java
Abdullah Khalid
Abdullah Khalid

Reputation: 75

what is the difference between java.nio.file.Path and java.nio.*;

when i looked at the source code of Scanner in java i found something confused me 

import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.*;

what is the difference between them, why they didn't just imported java.nio.*? thank you.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 142

Answers (2)

Oliver Charlesworth
Oliver Charlesworth

Reputation: 272517

Wildcards are not recursive. import java.nio.* imports everything directly under java.nio, but not any deeper than that.

In fact, "deeper" is a misleading term in itself. Packages in Java don't form a hierarchy - they aren't really nested in any semantic way. java.nio.file and java.nio are no more related to each other than foo and bar are to each other.

Upvotes: 8

Lino
Lino

Reputation: 19926

java.nio.* only imports the classes in that package but not in its subpackages.

Upvotes: 1

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