Rocking out with Google Guava · Carlos Alexandro Becker

According to the project site on GitHub, The Guava project contains several of Google’s core libraries that we rely on in our Java-based projects: collections, caching, primitives support, concurrency libraries, common annotations, string processing, I/O, and so forth.

I’ll show you some cool features that could make you like Guava Libraries even more:

Multimaps
I’m pretty sure that at least one time in you life you have needed a Map<Foo, Collection<Bar>> or something similar, huh? If not, someday you will need it, and when you need, you will see the crap that is doing a lot of checks for a existing collection with some key and creating and adding it if it isn’t there.
Ordering - Basically, a fluent comparator class, with a lot of utilities… you will be surprised when you see how cow it is, and will ask yourself how could I live without it until now?, you can bet.
Objects#equal - A null safe equals method. Never write if(foo != null && bar != null && foo.equals(bar)) in your life again. BTW, take a look in all Object common methods , you can use Objects#firstNonNull(Object, Object), as example, while Elvis operator and Java 8 are not ready :)
@Nullable and other utilities to help you follow the Null Object Pattern.
IO Handling, the Files class e.g.. Want to read the lines of a text file? Are you opening a BufferedReader? Don’t do that:

Collection<String> lines = Files.readLines(mytxtFile, Charsets.UTF8);

Simple, uh?

Splitters and Joinners. Suppose that our text filed used in the other example contains a lot of columns divided by a pipe (|), now, how can we parse it? Simple! Iterate the collection of string provided by Files.readLines, and do something like:

Iterable<String> columns = Splitter
  .on('|')
  .trimResults()
  .omitEmptyStrings()
  .split(line);

Pretty easy :)

Preconditions plus a static import made your arguments, state and null check easy and clean, throwing the respective exceptions (IllegalStateException, IllegalArgumentException, NullPointerException, etc…).
Immutable collections types (Immutable Maps, Lists, Sets, etc…).
CharMatcher. pretty easy way to match characteres sequences, eg:

String phoneNumber = CharMatcher
  .DIGIT
  .retainFrom("my phone number is 123456789");
CharMatcher
  .inRange('a','z')
  .or(inRange('A','Z'));

There are also Functional classes, maybe you will want to use them.
EventBus. Basically, a better EventListener.
Caching. Make your app faster.

These are, IMHO, the best features in Guava. But, there is much more.

If you want to use it in a maven project, just add to your pom.xml:

<dependency>
	<groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
	<artifactId>guava</artifactId>
	<version>15.0</version>
</dependency>

If you are not using maven, you can download the last version in this page.

Cool links

A question in stackoverflow, talking about some Guava Features;

The project still active, the last release (19) is from Dec 2015.

That’s all. Cheers.

Cool links

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