Guava and GWT

Google’s Guava is a fantastic framework that makes Java tolerable. (It was a major reason I wanted to work there.) Using it with GWT in Eclipse is fairly straightforward. Here are the steps that worked for me:

  1. Add guava-r09 and guava-r09-gwt to war/WEB-INF/lib
  2. Add them both to the classpath.

  3. Make sure you import like this:

    import com.google.common.base.Function;

    NOT like this:

    import com.google.gwt.thirdparty.guava.common.base.Function;

The latter leads only to sadness.

Different steps are required to make this work with versions earlier than r09.

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  1. wtfnth posted this