Re: [Jamwiki-devel] Guava?

[Thomas K. <th...@ko...>]

Ryan Holliday:
> On 3/14/2013 8:39 AM, jam...@li... wrote:
> > Are you familiar with the Guava library?
> > http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries
> 
> I've actually been looking at replacing ehcache for caching, and don't
> have strong feelings about things like commons.io, so Guava is
> definitely worth considering.  Have you used its caching functionality
> before?  Any feedback?
I haven't used the caching stuff yet.

> I've never used Guava before, so are there other libraries or custom
> functionality in the JAMWiki codebase that it could replace besides
> commons.io and ehcache?

I haven't seen enough of the jamwiki code to not miss many examples where 
guava could replace existing apache commons stuff. I've seen 
Stringutils.isBlank() which has an equivalence in guava.

A list of nice praises of guava:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3759440/the-guava-library-for-java-what-
are-its-most-useful-and-or-hidden-features

or do a video search for talks about google guava!

Regards,

Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro