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syntactic unit > symbol > name > package name

package name
subject			fact

package name	has example finance.banking.accounts
	has example com.naviseek.Mapplet is found in the naviseek directory which is inside the com directory (com aviseekMapplet.class in other words)
	is a subtopic of Packages
	is composed of a series of words separated by dots
	is a kind of name
	maps to a directory name on the file system
	should have the domain name of the organization (with the components inverted) prepended to the package name by convention to assure that each package name is unique in the world
name	cannot be a keyword
	is made up of a sequence of Unicode characters
syntactic unit	has syntax rule bold = mandatory italic = non-terminal normal font = optional