An Overview of Google Guava: Immutable Collections, New Collection Types, and Utility Classes
This article introduces Google Guava, covering its core purpose, how to add the library via Maven, the benefits and creation methods of immutable collections, the additional collection types such as Multiset, Multimap, BiMap, Table, and ClassToInstanceMap, as well as Guava's helper utilities for JDK collections, primitive types, strings, and the Stopwatch timing class, each illustrated with code examples and links to source repositories.