Why is Eclipse Content Assist not using static imports

Question

I'm trying to use JUnit and Mockito with content assist for static imports.

My Content Assist favorites lists: org.mockito.Mockito.*

When I use content assist for the mock() method, the method is availble, but the import is just get a regular non-static import. Why is this not working?

Answer 1

Eclipse won't look for static imports unless you tell it to. From the Eclipse Java Content Assist Favorites Preferences help page:

To see the static import proposals, make sure Use static imports is enabled on the Content Assist preference page

Admittedly, on my machine it was enabled by default.