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

In checkstyle.xml, change

to:

This requires version 6.0 of Checkstyle.

Source: https://github.com/jboss/jboss-parent-pom/issues/23