Re: Can two classes with the same co-exist?

From:
Owen Jacobson <angrybaldguy@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:57:25 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
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On Aug 29, 1:45 pm, laredotornado <laredotorn...@zipmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'm using Java 1.5 . I currently have two imports that use the same
class name:

import javax.faces.application.Application;
import com.myco.nps.im.dto.applications.Application;

Unsurprisingly, when I compile, I get the compilation error

    [javac] /export/third-party/etsbea/staging/wls_9.2.2/
nps_config_gui/src/com/myco/npsconfig/jsf/controllers/
AddApplicationPage.java:27: javax.faces.application.Application is
already defined in a single-type import
    [javac] import com.myco.nps.im.dto.applications.Application;

I didn't write either class but I need them both. Any way I can get
around this compilation error?


By referring to one or both classes by fully-qualified name
(javax.faces.application.Application,
com.myco.nps.im.dto.applications.Application) in the class, rather
than importing both. import statements do nothing more than tell the
compiler which fully-qualified name to expand a short name to; they
have no impact on which classes are available.

-o

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