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

I don't get all the non-answers posted here.

Yes, individual imports are a bad idea, and add little, if anything, of value.

Instead just explicitly import the conflicts with the class you want to use (The compiler will tell you about conflicts between the awt and shapes package.) like this:

import java.awt.*;
import shapes.*;
import shapes.Rectangle; // new Rectangle, and Rectangle.xxx will use shapes.Rectangle.

This has been done for years, since Java 1.2, with awt and util List classes. If you occasionally want to use java.awt.Rectangle, well, use the full class name, e.g., new java.awt.Rectangle(...);.