The following mail sent to javabugs describes the problem completely -
I've verified the results.


>From: Gerald Vogt <###@###.###>
This does not look like form output to me.

BUG REPORT JDK 1.0.2 javac Solaris 2.4 Sparc

javac cannot distinguish the same name for a class and a package. If
there is a class compiled with the same name as a package the
definitions in the package are not accessable.

Example: 3 files

---- node.java

package my.test;

public class node {
    public static final int AB = 0;
}

---- test.java

package my;

public class test
{
}

---- t.java

class Main {
  public static void main (String args[])
  {
    System.out.println("AB is " + my.test.node.AB);
  }
}

----

Compile with:

  setenv CLASSPATH ./classes
  javac -d classes node.java
  javac -d classes test.java
  javac -d classes t.java

The last statement prints the following error:

t.java:4: No variable node defined in class my.test.
    System.out.println("AB is " + my.test.node.AB);

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