Get Eclipse to prefer static imports of nested classes

Question

Assume we have a class FooCollection which contains a somewhat long list of static nested classes*:

public class FooCollection {
    public static class FooA implements Foo {
        // ...
    }

    public static class FooB implements Foo {
        // ...
    }

    // ...
}

Assume now we have another class using all of these classes. Currently, Eclipse will auto-format this to import each class separately if we reference the class itself

import com.me.FooCollection.FooA;
import com.me.FooCollection.FooB;
import com.me.FooCollection.FooC;
import com.me.FooCollection.FooD;

// and then later something like
callBaz( FooA.class );

What I would prefer to avoid bloating imports and constant commits changing imports due to colleagues using IntelliJ, is having it imported as

import static com.me.FooCollection.*;

However, I can't seem to find anything to get Eclipse to do this. Is there something I am missing or any way to get Eclipse to do it this way?

Edit: I actually just checked and even new FooA() will still cause the imports to switch back to this, despite setting the start imports threshold.

_{*) I realize that this is not exactly a good design, but it's a legacy application and for the sake of it let's assume that the code cannot be changed.}

Answer 1

Dave Newton is referencing the setting under "Organize Imports" in Window -> Preferences. You can set the threshold for importing using a wildcard. Looks like the default is 99 classes before going to the wildcard. If you set it at 2, it looks like it would do what you needed!

Answer 2

Not sure, if there is a way to make it to work globally, but there is a short cut to deal with one member at a time.

If you select FooCollection.FooA and press Ctrl + Shift + M will add the static import and also will update all other references with in that file.

I use this mostly to import Enums and constants.