This document provides an overview of features in the Guava library for Java, including:
- Using Optional to avoid null values and NullPointerExceptions.
- Using Preconditions to validate arguments and throw exceptions.
- Using Throwables to handle exceptions in a cleaner way.
- Functional idioms for working with collections and functions.
- Multisets and multimaps for representing collections that allow duplicates.
- Ranges for representing ranges of values like integers or characters.
- Hashing utilities for generating hashes like MD5.