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Bug 47599

Summary: [40cat] functionalify lost from Import Management Tool
Product: java Reporter: shemnon <shemnon>
Component: EditorAssignee: Dusan Balek <dbalek>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: blocker CC: bass
Priority: P2    
Version: 4.x   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows ME/2000   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on: 61022, 22891, 87930, 92176, 96421    
Bug Blocks: 24157    

Description shemnon 2004-08-20 21:14:21 UTC 
[ BUILD # : beta1 ]
[ JDK VERSION : J2SE 1.5.0 ]

It appears to me that the new Fix Imports command (only available in th e editor context menu) is the replacement for the old import management tool.

However, it has none of the user driven choices that the old 3.x version.  All the tool does is match up inknown identifiers with import packages.

Missing functionality that I miss is
 * the ability to group imports by package or individually
 * the ability to specify that an identifier should be left in as a full calss name rather than an import
 * a list of removed import statements.

Because "synchronize" tends to bring in fully qualified class names I would often use the import management tool to shorten them and group the more prolific packages together.

Is this functionality just somewhere else and I am just missing it?
Comment 1 Martin Matula 2004-08-20 21:58:44 UTC 
This functionality is currently not there and is planned for future
releases.
Comment 2 bass 2004-11-04 19:34:58 UTC 
Martin, does "future releases" mean 4.0/4.1, or we'll see no
improvements since 4.0beta2/4.1ea1?
Comment 3 bass 2004-11-04 19:44:42 UTC 
And one more question. Is it possible to introduce at least the
functionality of narrowing/widening/sorting import statements (like in
those proprietary IDEs like JBuilder & JDeveloper) -- in addition to
the (already present) option of removing unused ones?
Comment 4 Martin Matula 2004-11-05 08:38:03 UTC 
Future releases mean 4.1 and later. 4.0 has been "feature frozen"
since May...
Comment 5 Martin Matula 2004-11-12 23:59:08 UTC 
*** Issue 47686 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 6 Martin Matula 2004-11-13 00:05:38 UTC 
*** Issue 48373 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 7 zeljkot 2008-04-24 09:34:55 UTC 
*** Issue 59960 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 8 zeljkot 2008-04-24 09:44:42 UTC 
*** Issue 86553 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***