Change Name of Import in Java, or import two classes with the same name

There is no import aliasing mechanism in Java. You cannot import two classes with the same name and use both of them unqualified.

Import one class and use the fully qualified name for the other one, i.e.

import com.text.Formatter;

private Formatter textFormatter;
private com.json.Formatter jsonFormatter;

As the other answers already stated, Java does not provide this feature.

Implementation of this feature has been requested multiple times, e.g. as JDK-4194542: class name aliasing or JDK-4214789: Extend import to allow renaming of imported type.

From the comments:

This is not an unreasonable request, though hardly essential. The occasional use of fully qualified names is not an undue burden (unless the library really reuses the same simple names right and left, which is bad style).

In any event, it doesn't pass the bar of price/performance for a language change.

So I guess we will not see this feature in Java anytime soon :-P


It's probably worth noting that Groovy has this feature:

import java.util.Calendar
import com.example.Calendar as MyCalendar

MyCalendar myCalendar = new MyCalendar()

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