instanceof – incompatible conditional operand types

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A related issue that I have come across recently (and which led me to this page, before I figured out what was going on) is that the Eclipse environment can report “Incompatible conditional operand types” in an ‘instanceof’ expression erroneously due to a missing ‘import’ statement for the type on the right of the ‘instanceof’. I spent a while trying to figure out how the types in question could possibly be incompatible before figuring out that a missing import was causing the whole problem. Hopefully this information saves somebody some time.

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