How to avoid Eclipse importing a class when putting the class name in the comments, so that checkstyle does not complain later?

Question

Sometimes I put the class name in the comments of methods or class just for referencing. But eclipse does the import automatically and leaves an import statement in the file whi

Answer 1

If you use the fully-qualified class name in the JavaDoc, Eclipse will not add an import, e.g.

/**
 * This class is a {@link java.io.File} that blah blah blah
 */