If you will bring it as a dependency -- don't use guava 15, use guava 16. It breaks CDI in major appservers (jboss as 7, glassfish 3, websphere) with incorrect beans.xml.
See https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WELD-1007 and https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/issues/detail?id=1527. -- Best regards, Konstantin Gribov. 2014-03-06 15:54 GMT+04:00 Nick Burch <apa...@gagravarr.org>: > On Thu, 6 Mar 2014, Hong-Thai Nguyen wrote: > >> Guava (https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/) provides many >> facilities on text, file, collection ... manipuation. Should we use in Tika >> ? >> > > Can you give an example of where using Guava would either simplify some > existing code, or improve its effectiveness, or permit something we > couldn't otherwise do? > > Nick >