I believe I am able to use the fully qualified name instead of an import, if I am wrong please correct me. This could probably be done using reflection as well.

I believe I am able to use the fully qualified name instead of an import, if I am wrong please correct me (this is my first post here.) This could probably be done using reflection as well.

Edit: here's a reflective solution using only java.lang.reflect.*:

import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;

public class Test {
    public static void main(String... args) {
        System.setOut(null);
        System.setErr(null);

        try {
            Class<?> psClass = Class.forName("java.io.PrintStream");
            Class<?> fsClass = Class.forName("java.io.FileOutputStream");
            Class<?> osClass = Class.forName("java.io.OutputStream");
            Class<?> fdClass = Class.forName("java.io.FileDescriptor");
            Class<System> sClass = System.class;
            Constructor psCtor = psClass.getConstructor(osClass);
            Constructor fsCtor = fsClass.getConstructor(fdClass);

            Field modifiersField = Field.class.getDeclaredField("modifiers");
            modifiersField.setAccessible(true);

            Object sout = psCtor.newInstance(fsCtor.newInstance(fdClass.getDeclaredField("out").get(null)));
            Field outField = sClass.getDeclaredField("out");
            modifiersField.setInt(outField, outField.getModifiers() & ~Modifier.FINAL);
            outField.set(null, sout);

            Object serr = psCtor.newInstance(fsCtor.newInstance(fdClass.getDeclaredField("err").get(null)));
            Field errField = sClass.getDeclaredField("err");
            modifiersField.setInt(errField, outField.getModifiers() & ~Modifier.FINAL);
            errField.set(null, serr);

            System.out.println("This");
            System.err.println("works");
        } catch (Exception ignore) {
        }
    }
}