<s>
Static	B-Language
import	I-Language
is	O
a	O
feature	O
introduced	O
in	O
the	O
Java	B-Language
programming	I-Language
language	I-Language
that	O
allows	O
members	O
(	O
fields	O
and	O
methods	O
)	O
which	O
have	O
been	O
scoped	O
within	O
their	O
container	O
class	O
as	O
public	O
static	O
,	O
to	O
be	O
used	O
in	O
Java	B-Language
code	I-Language
without	O
specifying	O
the	O
class	O
in	O
which	O
the	O
field	O
has	O
been	O
defined	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
also	O
helps	O
to	O
deprecate	O
the	O
practice	O
of	O
creating	O
a	O
constant	B-Language
interface	I-Language
(	O
an	O
interface	B-Application
that	O
only	O
defines	O
constants	O
then	O
writing	O
a	O
class	O
implementing	O
that	O
interface	B-Application
,	O
which	O
is	O
considered	O
an	O
inappropriate	O
use	O
of	O
interfaces	B-Application
.	O
)	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
this	O
case	O
,	O
MAX_VALUE	O
is	O
ambiguous	O
,	O
as	O
the	O
MAX_VALUE	O
field	O
is	O
an	O
attribute	O
of	O
both	O
java.lang.Integer	O
and	O
java.lang.Long	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Prefixing	O
the	O
field	O
with	O
its	O
class	O
name	O
will	O
disambiguate	O
the	O
class	O
from	O
which	O
MAX_VALUE	O
is	O
derived	O
,	O
but	O
doing	O
so	O
makes	O
the	O
use	O
of	O
a	O
static	B-Language
import	I-Language
redundant	O
.	O
</s>
