Question

I use a mass import class group as below:

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.text.*;
import java.util.regex.*;

This way I don’t have to worry about leaving any classes out.

Then when I used List I got this error:

reference to List is ambiguous, both class java.util.List in java.util
and class java.awt.List in java.awt match

How do I fix this? Is there a way to deport one of the classes? Which one is better?

Answer 1

You will need to refer to these types with their fully qualified names, java.util.List and java.awt.List, throughout this class file.

This will disambiguate the two Lists so that it won’t strictly be necessary to “deport” anything (your import statements can stay the same). However I do agree with the other answer’s recommendations that you tidy up your imports.

If one of the Lists was “deported” then that would let you refer to the other List by its short name.