The long wait is over :-)

[kevin bourrillion]

I'm glad to announce that I've finally, after five months, pushed out a new snapshot of the Google Collections Library.

You're probably using google-collect-snapshot-20071022.jar today, but please switch to google-collect-snapshot-20080321 and tell us if you have any problems!

We've been busy:

• Functions and Predicates each implement eq()/hC()/tS() and are serializable
• Functions: toHashCode(), toStringFunction() (* replaces TO_STRING)
• Predicates: notNull, isSameAs(), in(), compose()
• Sets: newSetFromMap(), newWeakHashSet(), newSoftHashSet(), newEnumSet()
• Itera...s: size(), isEmpty(), limit(), skip(), getLast()
• Iterators: emptyListIterator(); peekingIterator() (returning new PeekingIterator interface)
• Ordering: like "Comparator++"; has max(), min(), sort(), sortedCopy(), binarySearch(), reverseOrder(); Comparators methods return these now
• ObjectArrays: newArray(T[], int)
• Suppliers: ofInstance(), compose(), memoize()
• ImmutableList class (* replaces Lists.immutableList())
• ImmutableSet class (* replaces Sets.immutableSet())

Plus, a lot of work has been done on updating and polishing the javadoc; you won't notice this directly but we're sure the impact will be felt.

A big thanks to Jared Levy, Chris Povirk, Jesse Wilson, Mick Killianey and others for all the great work represented here.

I am now working on getting the unit tests made available (no, really), which is not impossible but definitely harder than it sounds.  Stay tuned.

Enjoy!


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Kevin Bourrillion @ Google
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