Setting Up Your Development Environment - Beginning Java Programming: The Object-Oriented Approach - page 58

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How It Works
Here's how it works:
1. In Eclipse, every Java project is stored in its own location, referred to conveniently as a project .

You created your first project called MyFirstJavaProject to store all the components required for
the project in this exercise.

2.

Next, you created a package. A package acts as a folder for related class files.

3.

You created a class and placed it inside this package. The first line of your class reads package
myPackage; and indicates where the class is located. The word package is a keyword in Java, so it
is shown in a bold purple font to highlight it.

4.

After the package declaration, there are a few lines of code that start with /** and end with */ .
These are special symbols that indicate a block comment. Comments are not compiled or executed,