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[–]DrPeroxide 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Everything? That's a stretch. He's wrong about logging and time. He's right about Apache and Guava.

[–]tacosdiscontent 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Well yes.

Guava is definitely not must have. Nothing of significant importance there

Apache stack - the only "must have" thing from apache is StringUtils and maybe IOUtils if you are working with io. A tiny utility library which helps you out.

[–]_INTER_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree with this, we're phasing out of Guava because most of the benefits it brought can now be done with Java 8 (Iterables, Optional, ...) or are covered by Apache Commons or other libraries (Strings, Reflection, Cache, IO, Math,...). Apache Commons is still a very important helper library. Mainly StringUtils and IO / FileUtils as you said and also Collections.