If you make heavy use of the constants exported by a utility class, you can avoid the need for qualifying the constants with the class name by making use of the static import facility:
I don’t really like this static import thing. I think it assumes everyone is using an IDE, as it hides where things are coming from. One of the things o liked about java (especially when diving into unfamiliar codebase) was how explicit everything needs to be.

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Robert