title: Importing Java classes to Clojure
body: <p>Trying to import a class outside the java-library with no result. I'm runnig counterclockwise on Eclipse Helios. The commons-land-2.6.jar is in the buildpath. I'm new to Clojure and can't figure this out. All help greatly appreciated!</p>
  
  <p>Naturally this works fine:</p>
  
  <pre><code>1:7 exp2=&gt; (import '(java.io FileReader))
  </code></pre>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>> java.io.FileReader</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>but this doesn't:</p>
  
  <pre><code>1:6 exp2=&gt; (import '(org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils))
  </code></pre>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>> nil</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>This is the ultimate goal:</p>
  
  <p>1:10 exp2=> (defn whitespace? [character] (. StringUtils (isEmpty character )))</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>> java.lang.Exception: Unable to resolve symbol: StringUtils in this context (repl-1:10)</p>
  </blockquote>