On Oct 7, 2014, at 10/79:31 AM , John Huss <johnth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm... I have a lot to say, so I might ramble a bit. > > 1) Static imports > > I'll never been a big user of static imports, largely because the tooling > (Eclipse) doesn't support them well. Everytime I've used a static import > (which is really only in JUnit) I've wanted to import all the members: > import package.*; Well, when you organize import Eclipse will replace the > star with the specific items you've used. So you end up have to fix the > import over and over. On the other side, Eclipse won't automatically add > the static import or even recommend it based on your code, so it becomes a > rarely used feature. As an aside, there is* as option in the preference pane under Java->Code Style->Organize Imports (it’s a tab) called “Number of static imports needed for .*”. If you change that to 1, this behavior will be fixed for you. *At least there used to be. I haven’t used Eclipse in a couple of years Robert
