Too many imports spamming my code

Question

In my project I have a shapes package which has shapes I designed for my graphics program e.g Rectangle, Circle. I also have one or two more packages that have the

Answer 1

Another alternative is to type the fully qualified class name as you need it. In my example, there are 2 Element object, one created by me org.opensearch.Element and the other org.w3c.dom.Element.

To resolve name conflict, as well as to minimize import "clutters", I've done this (in my org.opensearch.Element class):

public org.w3c.dom.Element toElement(org.w3c.dom.Document doc) { /* .... */ }

As you can see, the return Element type is fully-typed (i.e. I've specified the fully-qualifed class name of Element).

Problem solved! :-)