[Mondrian] Ditch commons-collections for Guava?

[Kurtis Walker]

Also, Multi maps look like a usefull data structure.

On Thursday, March 07, 2013 01:11:29 PM Kurtis Walker wrote:
> 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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