Automatically remove explicit package declarations with import statements in Java

Question

I have a project created by others that includes thousands of class files and has the package names explicitly typed out for every reference to any of their classes. It look

Answer 1

This thread says:

select the package explorer view, right click on your project, choose source then organise imports. Bobs your uncle - all unwanted imports are removed

To make it better formatted:

Right click project > Source > Organize imports

Now, what remains, is to find a way to strip the fully-qualified names from the code. You may think of some regular expression. Take a look at this library - it seems helpful. This article should also be useful.