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fully qualified class name
subject			fact

fully qualified class name	contains package name
	has example java.lang.String
	is a subtopic of Packages
	is a kind of class name
	is a kind of fully qualified name
class name	has first letter of each word capitalized by convention
	is written in the singular by convention
	should be a noun by convention
	should not be too general or too specific
fully qualified name	the fully qualified name for a member must be used if the member is in a different package and if the member's package has not been imported
	can be used to disambiguate two members of different packages with the same name
	see also simple name
name	is made up of a sequence of Unicode characters
syntactic unit	has syntax rule bold = mandatory italic = non-terminal normal font = optional