I was thinking about the same problem , I opened a ticket for a specific problem of ambiguity in imports. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-1253
2015-08-20 7:17 GMT+02:00 Sergi Vladykin <sergi.vlady...@gmail.com>: > Agree, I don't like current approach as well and prefer explicit imports. > Since they are automatically maintained by IDE it will be easy enough to > change this. > > Sergi > > 2015-08-20 0:37 GMT+03:00 Raul Kripalani <ra...@apache.org>: > > > (Found out that org.jsr166 is an internal package in this case). > > > > *Raúl Kripalani* > > Apache Camel PMC Member & Committer | Enterprise Architect, Open Source > > Integration specialist > > http://about.me/raulkripalani | http://www.linkedin.com/in/raulkripalani > > http://blog.raulkr.net | twitter: @raulvk > > > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Raul Kripalani <ra...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > > > Hello Igniters, > > > > > > First of all, congrats to all the committers, former PPMC now PMC > members > > > and mentors for the project's graduation! Great work, everybody! > > > > > > I have a question about the Coding Guidelines. Why do they enforce star > > > imports? > > > > > > It is considered a bad practice for several reasons: > > > > > > 1. It pollutes the local namespace, leading to unnecessary name > clashes. > > > > > > 2. Unexpected errors can occur if a class is added the package of a > > > dependency we import. Of course, this would be detected at compile time > > and > > > would make the build fail. But it's worrisome that we allow this to > occur > > > in the first place. Leads to unpredictable builds in case we have > > SNAPSHOT > > > dependencies. > > > > > > 3. It makes it absolutely necessary to use a fully-fledged IDE to > browse > > > the source. People using simpler text editors like Sublime, vi or emacs > > > will have a hard time unless they use plugins that can process pom.xml > > and > > > add dependencies to classpaths (I haven't even installed these plugins > – > > > and I use Sublime 45% of my working time, as an example). > > > > > > 4. As an example of the latter, I'm currently working on adding OSGi > > > support for ignite-core. I'm trying to figure out which classes require > > > package org.jsr166; and for this I'm using Sublime, not IntelliJ, for > > > lightweight browsing. Found several hits, but because I'm not familiar > > with > > > the contents of the package by heart, I have absolutely no clue which > > > classes of that package are being used our source files. > > > > > > If the reason/alleged benefit is simple convenience/brevity, I'm not > > quite > > > sure it outweighs all the negatives. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > *Raúl Kripalani* > > > Apache Camel PMC Member & Committer | Enterprise Architect, Open Source > > > Integration specialist > > > http://about.me/raulkripalani | > http://www.linkedin.com/in/raulkripalani > > > http://blog.raulkr.net | twitter: @raulvk > > > > > >
