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What are static imports in JDK 1.5?
Static imports have been introduced in 1.5 to remove the burden of having to qualify constant names. With static imports, you import the static members from a class rather than the classes from a package. For example, suppose we have a class Einstein that calculates the formula E=m*c*c. com\esus\Einstein.java:
Here is an example of how to use this class before 1.5.
Main.java:
In 1.5, things would get simpler and more readable. Main.java:
Notice that you can import static member constants as well as static methods.
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Author of answer: Joris Van den Bogaert
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