Lets say , there are some import statements in a class. When the byte code is generated for that class, what happens to these import statements.
If the import statements are ignored during runtime, how are the dependencies on that classes methods resolved during runtime.
The purpose of import statements is just to make life easier for the human readers (and authors) of the code. Thus they are replaced by references to the fully qualified class/method names in the bytecode. And unused import statements are ignored.