Difference between hamcrest-library Matchers and hamcrest-core CoreMatchers

Question

It looks like the hamcrest org.hamcrest.Matchers class is very similar to org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers (though it looks like Matchers has mor

Answer 1

If you use Mockito a lot (as I do), you might be doing:

import org.mockito.Mockito;

or

static import org.mockito.Mockito.*;

and since the Mockito class extends Mockito's Matchers class, then you can end up with conflicts between either the Matchers classes or their static methods. Having CoreMatchers allows me to use JUnit-derived CoreMatchers in the same class as Mockito, without having to full-qualify them at their point of usage.