Also, if you look at the Javadocs for some of the creation methods, they explicitly state that they are for Java 6 and earlier, and that modern code should just

Also, if you look at the Javadocs for some of the creation methods, they explicitly state that they are for Java 6 and earlier, and that modern code should just use the constructor with the diamond syntax. http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git/javadoc/com/google/common/collect/Lists.html#newArrayList() http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git/javadoc/com/g...