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Java Java Objects Meet Objects Creating Classes

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check this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2134784/why-are-filenames-in-java-the-same-as-the-class-name and the most would say just to make it easy for java compiler to find the classes

Mohammad Laif
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Mohammad Laif
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It's just a convention that java language built on. I think they made it like that, so developers naming wrong classes names by mistakes.

Imagine if you have file name: Home, and its class name: Farm, the opposite too. It would be very confusing.