This is a pet project demonstrating some of the basic usage in the Google Guava library: > http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/ The best way to try them out for yourself is to: 1) Clone the project 2) Run mvn eclipse:eclipse 3) Import into Eclipse 4) Explore and run the different test-classes in src/test/java. You can also find slides with the examples here: http://blog.tfnico.com/2010/06/google-guava-taking-over-for-google.html