Description Eric Jain 2009-02-24 14:35:26 EST

Build ID: M20080911-1700

Steps To Reproduce:
=== test/A.java ==
package test;

import static test.A.B.bar;
import other.C;

public class A {
	
	public void foo() {
		bar();
	}
	
	public static class B extends C {
		
		public static void bar() {
			
		}
	}
}

=== other/C.java ==
package other;

public class C {

}


More information:
Eclipse compiles this code whereas Sun's javac (1.6.0_11) fails like so:

test\A.java:12: cannot find symbol
symbol  : class C
location: class test.A
        public static class B extends C {
                                      ^
1 error

In both cases the code compiles fine if the order of the two import statements is switched! Arguably Eclipse is being smarter here, so it may be worth checking if the language specification has anything to say on this matter.