Kevin Bourrillion (Guava lead developer) just made an insightful reply on this subject in the issue tracker: > Saw this bug referenced as "a reason not to us

Kevin Bourrillion (Guava lead developer) just made an insightful reply on this subject in the issue tracker: > Saw this bug referenced as "a reason not to use Guava." > Does everyone understand that Guava is still perfectly > *usable* on JDK 5, it just can't be *built* using JDK 5, > and that part of the reason for that is *compiler bugs* > in JDK 5 whose fixes in 6 were never backported? http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/issues/detail?id=364#c7 http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/issues/detail?id=36...