Essential tools to manage import statements in Eclipse | Eclipse On E

Essential tools to manage import statements in Eclipse | Eclipse On E

Main menu Posted on It's a big hassle to manually organise package import statements so it's important to know what tools are available so your IDE can handle imports as quickly and quietly as possible. Adding import statements for missing references and removing unused imports can take ages and the list of imports can get very long and hard to manage. As an example, the import statements below can consist of static/normal imports and wildcard/class imports: // The list of imports can get really long... import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals; // Static imports import java.util.List; import java.util.ArrayList; import org.apache.commons.lang.*; // Wildcard; unused so should be removed ... public class MyTest { @Test public void testSomething() throws Exception { List messages = new ArrayList(); assertEquals(1, 1); } } To make life easier, Eclipse has a heap of features that automatically manage import statements,

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