A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST : JRunscript option "-cp" allows to load any jar, but importPackage() in JavaScript (JS) will fail with "new" package names, which are not already existing on start. Example: compile two classes (into a jar) with two packages: "de" and "com". While com loads fine and is usable, de gets an error, as if the (same) jar does not contain these classes. JUSTIFICATION : The error produced is very misleading and there is no documentation telling you why packages are not loaded. It looks like a classpath or VM-classpath issue, while it is none. Importing packages from jars should be possible for all top-level packages, as country-code specific packages are (or were) common practice. At least the error should be more helpful in such a case. EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR : EXPECTED - Setting classpath and trying to import OrgStatics in package "org" works fine: C:\Programme\Java\jdk1.6.0_10\bin>jrunscript.exe -cp C:\JsLib.jar js> importPackage(org) js> OrgStatics.hello() Hello World ACTUAL - Setting classpath and trying to import fails with "de" (country-specific package name): C:\Programme\Java\jdk1.6.0_10\bin>jrunscript.exe -cp C:\JsLib.jar js> importPackage(de) script error: sun.org.mozilla.javascript.internal.EcmaError: ReferenceError: "de " is not defined. (<STDIN>#1) in <STDIN> at line number 1 js> DeStatics.hello() script error: sun.org.mozilla.javascript.internal.EcmaError: ReferenceError: "De Statics" is not defined. (<STDIN>#1) in <STDIN> at line number 1 ---------- BEGIN SOURCE ---------- //these examples are stripped down while copying them here. i guess they work, but you get the picture anyways //OrgStatics.java package org; public class OrgStatics { public static String hello() { return "Hello World"; } } //DeStatics.java package de; public class DeStatics { public static String hello() { return "Hello World"; } } ---------- END SOURCE ---------- CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND : None. Rename packages to com, org or whatever.