Google Collections Library 1.0 released
On December 30th, Google released version 1.0-final of its
Google Collections Library, an extension of the Java Collection
Framework. Google will make no more source- or binary- incompatible
changes. However, Google reserves the right to make alterations to
the serialised form of the objects, so developers are warned not to
serialise objects into a database and expect to deserialise them at
a later date.
Kevin Bourrillion, one of the two primary creators of the Google
Collections Library, refers to his co-creation as solving “the same
basic problems (as) the Java Collections Framework – just taken to
the next level.” Google Collections Library simplifies code,
cutting down the amount of low-level code that developers need to
write and test. It also introduces new collection types, Multimap,
Multiset and BiMap, and lists, sets and maps utility types.
Google Collections Library Version 1.0-final can be downloaded
here.