[Mondrian] Ditch commons-collections for Guava?

Kurtis Walker kwalker at pentaho.com
Thu Mar 7 14:11:29 EST 2013


I am in favor for all the reasons mentioned.

On Thursday, March 07, 2013 12:50:26 PM Julian Hyde wrote:
> In Mondrian's code base, should we ditch Apache commons-collections for Guava?
> 
> Guava is a library of general-purpose utilities developed by Google. It is more modern than Apache commons (e.g. it supports generics). I am particularly interested in Guava's immutable lists (unlike unmodifiable lists, they cannot be changed by anyone, even the person that created them) and Guava's support for lambdas. Guava seems to have a lot of good stuff that supports/encourages a modern Java programming style.
> 
> We might be able to remove some of our other dependencies too.
> 
> Julian
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