2.10. Importing Types and Their Members

To use declarations in packages, you have to import them, just as you do in Java and similarly for other languages. However, compared to Java, Scala greatly expands your options. The following example illustrates several ways to import Java types:

// code-examples/TypeLessDoMore/import-example1.scala

import java.awt._
import java.io.File
import java.io.File._
import java.util.{Map, HashMap}