[Bluej-discuss] Compiler barfs when imported class not specifically named in method call

[Hedley Finger]

I wanted to do an assertEquals on the values of two double arrays, 
but the standard JUnit methods do not provide this (the object 
pointer references are compared and they are NEVER going to be equal).

After installing junit-addons.jar into the BlueJ IDE and adding it to 
the list of libraries, I was able to do this:

         import junitx.framework.AssertArray;
         import junit.framework.Assert;

but calling

         assertEquals(double[], double[], double);

causes a compiler error but not with

         AssertArray.assertEquals(double[], double[], double);

The latter is just fine with the compiler and, what is more, the test 
method even works!  8^)

I am new to Java and could not concoct the Google search that would 
lead me to the reasoning for this behaviour.  Can anyone tell me why 
I need to call the AssertArray class explicitly?

Regards,
Hedley


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