Exciting news for Java developers: The first 1.0 release candidate of Google Collections has been released. For almost a year I’ve been waiting for this, and now it seems the waiting will soon be over.

Basically, Google Collections is a better, more consistent version of commons-collections with generics and a few cool things that let you almost use a functional style in Java (at least as far as this is possible). I think this library will quickly become a standard dependency in my Java projects.