Functional Java collections

There is a lot of functional hype these days so I would give a short overview on what is out…

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Google Guava BiMaps

Next up on my tour of Guava, is the BiMap, another useful collection type. It’s pretty simple really, a BiMap…

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Guava Splitter vs StringUtils

So I recently wrote a post about good old reliable Apache Commons StringUtils, which provoked a couple of comments, one…

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Google Guava BloomFilter

When the Guava project released version 11.0, one of the new additions was the BloomFilter class. A BloomFilter is a…

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Google Guava EventBus and Java 7 WatchService for Event Programming

This post is going to cover using the Guava EventBus to publish changes to a directory or sub-directories detected by…

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Google Guava MultiMaps

Guava? This is the first in a series of posts where I’ll be attempting to explain and explore Google’s awesome…

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Google Guava EventBus for Event Programming

 It’s a given in any software application there are objects that need to share information in order to get work…

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Guava’s Collections2: Filtering and Transforming Java Collections

One of the conveniences of Groovy is the ability to easily perform filtering and transformation operations on collections via Groovy’s…

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Guava’s Objects Class: Equals, HashCode, and ToString

If you are fortunate enough to be using JDK 7, the newly available Objects class is the obvious (at least…

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