=o= Yeah, but that's happens when the compiler does dependency- based builds. Plain old "make" has this problem as well.

=o= As of Java 1.1, there's also the issue of compiles making extra .class files with auto-generated names for anonymous inner classes.

=o= An additional complication is that the javac compiler's dependency-checking will not necessarily detect complicated interdependent relationships, unless you make sure to compile the interdependent source files together. Thus I've found the only reliable way to work is to group the source files in directory/package structures and run this command:

% javac *.java

And what they produce is always referred to as *.class, so as to pick up the anonymous inner class files as well. <_Jym_>