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How to handle package name changes in Java, if both versions need to be supported?

I need to support two versions of a dependency, which have the same API but different package names.
How do I handle this without maintaining two versions of my code, with the only change being the import statement?
For local variables, I guess I could use reflection (ugly!), but I use the classes in question as method argument. If I don't want to pass around Object instances, what else can I do to abstract from the package name?
Is it maybe possible to apply a self-made interface - which is compatible to the API - to existing instances and pass them around as instance of this interface?
I am mostly actually using xtend for my code, if that changes the answer.

Since you're using Xtend, here's a solution that makes use of Xtend's #Delegate annotation. There might be better solutions that aren't based on Xtend though and this will only work for simple APIs that only consist of interfaces with exactly the same method signatures.
So assuming you have interfaces with exactly the same method signatures in different packages, e.g. like this:
package vendor.api1
interface Greeter {
def void sayHello(String name)
}
package vendor.api2
interface Greeter {
def void sayHello(String name)
}
Then you can combine both into a single interface and only use only this combined interface in your code.
package example.api
interface Greeter extends vendor.api1.Greeter, vendor.api2.Greeter {
}
This is also possible in Java so far but you would have to write a lot boilerplate for each interface method to make it work. In Xtend you can use #Delegate instead to automatically generate everything without having to care how many methods the interface has or what they look like:
package example.internal
import example.api.Greeter
import org.eclipse.xtend.lib.annotations.Delegate
import org.eclipse.xtend.lib.annotations.FinalFieldsConstructor
#FinalFieldsConstructor
class GreeterImpl implements Greeter {
#Delegate val Api delegate
}
#FinalFieldsConstructor
class Greeter1Wrapper implements Greeter {
#Delegate val vendor.api1.Greeter delegate
}
#FinalFieldsConstructor
class Greeter2Wrapper implements Greeter {
#Delegate val vendor.api2.Greeter delegate
}
Both Greeter1Wrapper and Greeter2Wrapper actually implement the interface of both packages here but since the signature is identical all methods are forwarded to the respective delegate instance. These wrappers are necessary because the delegate of GreeterImpl needs to implement the same interface as GreeterImpl (usually a single delegate would be enough if the packages were the same).
Now you can decide at run-time which version to use.
val vendor.api1.Greeter greeterApi1 = ... // get from vendor API
val vendor.api2.Greeter greeterApi2 = ... // get from vendor API
val apiWrapper = switch version {
case 1: new Greeter1Wrapper(greeterApi1)
case 2: new Greeter2Wrapper(greeterApi2)
}
val example.api.Greeter myGreeter = new GreeterImpl(apiWrapper)
myGreeter.sayHello("world")
This pattern can be repeated for all interfaces. You might be able to avoid even more boilerplate by implementing a custom active annotation processor that generates all of the required classes from a single annotation.

Where to place a private method that shared by multiple Spring java config file?

I have several Spring Java config classes and they have same private method. Should I create the private method in each Java config class or do I have other options to avoid listing duplicate method. By the way, I have a CommonConfig.java class imported by all other config classes. Can I make the private method and place it inside CommonConfig.java?
By the way, all other Spring Java Config classes import CommonConfig like bellow.
#Import({ CommonConfig.class, })

You can initialize the method in CommonConfig.java class, do not make it private else the extending classes won't be able to use it.
If the implementation of that method is different as per the classes you can make an interface & declare that method in that.

Is there a Java wrapper annotation?

Trying to find a way to wraps an object, which is auto generated based on some model with lots of getters and setters. For example:
class ObjectToWrap {
public int getIntA();
public int getIntB();
... // Tons of other getters
}
I have to create a wrapper that wraps this object and use some annotation that generates methods from ObjectToWrap for me. Code looks like the following:
class Wrapper {
private ObjectToWrap obj;
public int getIntA() {
return obj.getIntA();
}
public int getIntB() {
return obj.getIntB();
}
... // Tons of other getters
}
Is there an annotation to do this? I just don't want to make the code look lengthy.

Take a look at Project Lombok which has a #Delegate annotation which does exactly what you want.
#Delegate documentation
I think you would be able to do this:
import lombok.Delegate;
class Wrapper {
//the types field in the annotation says
//to only auto generate deleagate methods
//for only the public methods in the ObjectToWrap class
//and not any parent classes if ObjectToWrap extended something
#Delegate(types = ObjectToWrap.class)
private ObjectToWrap obj;
}

If you are using the maven build infrastructure with dependency management, you could have a dependent sub-project that collects the generated sources as-is (not as code). Another sub-project could then generate real sources out of them (source code transformation) as zip, which then could be imported by maven in the main project as pre-compile target.
On that basis you could use dynamic proxy classes, or even immediate generated classes.
The only other alternative would be to use the java scripting API, and do the business in JavaScript or so. Loosing the type safeness of java and lowering the software quality.
Unfortunately the alternative of hybrid usage of another JVM language I cannot consider productive. The very nice and powerful Scala still is too wild/complex/ticklish.

Rule that checks if a class uses a method in a group of classes

I'm trying to write a xpath-rule where I'd like to warn about using a couple of methods given a specific namespace. The rule could be stated as:
You should only be able to call create/update/delete in classes named with suffix Repository if the call is made from a class named with suffix domain.
The part where I fail is how to connect the field "private XXXRepository xxxRepository" to the call "xxxRepository.create()" in a method later in the code. Just checking that the the case where the naming convension is followed seems insufficent.
Example code:
public class Example()
private TestRepository testRepository;
public void callToCreate(){
testRepository.create();
}
}

How to use java methods defined in another class/file

I've been working on some problems from Project Euler, and, in the process, have written a lot of useful methods (in Java) that I might like to use in other Java projects. I want to be able to call them in the way that you call a function from java.lang.math, so if I had a method primeFactor() I could call it using MyMathMethods.primeFactor(number). How would I go about this? Would I make some kind of package that I could import? Would I make a superclass that includes all my useful math-y functions and have whatever class I'm working with in a new project extend that? There are probably multiple ways to do this, but I don't know what is best. Thanks in advance.

Mark your utility methods as public static. Package your classes containing those utility methods in a jar. Add/Refer that jar in your project, where you want to use the. Then in your code you can call them in a static way lke : MyUtilityClass.myUtilityMethod();

The best thing for this situation is to work in meaningful packages and make their jar
You can create a package like
/* File name : Animal.java */
package animals;
interface Animal {
public void eat();
public void travel();
}
Also on classes
package animals;
/* File name : MammalInt.java */
public class MammalInt implements Animal{
public void eat(){
System.out.println("Mammal eats");
}
public void travel(){
System.out.println("Mammal travels");
}
public int noOfLegs(){
return 0;
}
public static void main(String args[]){
MammalInt m = new MammalInt();
m.eat();
m.travel();
}
}
You can import them like
import animals.*; OR be more specific import animals.MammalInt;Now you can make the jar file , import it in your project and use its methodYou can eaisly do it by this commandjar cmf MyJar.jar Manifest.txt MyPackage/*.class
For more details about jar creation please see thisAs a side note: Be carefull about visibility of members and functions while packaging itBecause there usage and accessibility matters a lot while we are using them

You could create separate java project with your util classes only and then create jar file and import into any another project.

Simply instantiate the class. Like your example, if you had a class MyMathMethods with the function primeFactor(number) then at other classes, simply instantiate it with something like private MyMathMethods myMathMethods;. Now, to call the function simply do myMathMethods.primeFactor(number); You may need to import its package as well.

False understanding of packages is any class defined within a package is visible to all other classes. Not true from my experience. If you have classes containing utility style methods you want to make available in another class? Simply declare a new instance of the class in the class you need the method in. Like... private MathUtilsClass mathUtilsClass = new MathUtilsClass(): Then any method you want to call from this class uses the new identifier, e.g. mathUtilsClass.greatFunction(); This is stupidly easy and should solve your problem.