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

The Checkstyle bug has been fixed now. In Checkstyle config, go Imports > Unused Imports > click Open > make sure processJavadoc is checked.

Now Checkstyle doesn't warn on this anymore.