Learn Java Programming - Packages: Import Statement Tutorial
I demonstrated in my Packages Part 1 Tutorial that we could access a class from another package using its fully qualified name. However, it would get really old really fast if we had to type in the fully qualified name every time we used a class or its members from another package. The import statement comes to rescue! The import statement must reside after the package statement and before the class declaration. You can use the import statement in a couple of different ways. The structure for the statement looks like this:
(import) (package.ClassName) (;)
(import) (package.*) (;) // wildcard * imports all available classes