Static Import

One of the changes to the JavaLanguage in Java 5 was static import, which allows you to invoke static methods from classes without qualifying the method with the class name. Example:

import static org.junit.Assert.*;
public class SimpleArithmeticTest {
@Test
public void additionHadBetterWork() {
assertEquals( 7, 3 + 4 );
}
}


assertEquals(), which lives on org.junit.Assert, has been statically imported. Without the static import, the test class would have to qualify the invocation by saying Assert.assertEquals(...).

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