One of the changes to the JavaLanguage in Java 5 was static import, which allows you to invoke static methods from classes without qualifying the method with the class name. Example:
import static org.junit.Assert.*; public class SimpleArithmeticTest { @Test public void additionHadBetterWork() { assertEquals( 7, 3 + 4 ); } }assertEquals(), which lives on org.junit.Assert, has been statically imported. Without the static import, the test class would have to qualify the invocation by saying Assert.assertEquals(...).