1These folders host the maven metadata which are used to 2build release binaries for hosting in the central maven 3repositories. These are not considered the "canonical" 4build, but are maintained seperately by (a) volunteer(s) 5with an interest in easy use of Guava by the Maven build 6system. 7 8As a convenience, these folders have been set up to 9provide alternate packaging of the sub-pmodules, which 10correspond to their respective java packages, with 11sources symbolically linked back to the main project. 12This will work to allow command-line builds on MacOS X 13or other Unix platforms which support symbolic linking, 14but is not known to work on Windows platforms. 15(Obviously the deployed binaries in maven repostories 16will work fine on any compliant JVM). 17 18The maintainers of these metadata have used M2Eclipse 19to import these projects directly into Eclipse. Please 20remember that this codebase uses @Override annotations 21on methods which implement an interface method, and 22therefore require a JDK 1.6 (or newer 1.5 with the 23appropriate fix) to support this behaviour. Executing 24Maven with an appropriate JAVA_HOME env is sufficient, 25and these metadata do not have toolchain restrictions 26currently set up. 27 28Christian 29cgruber@google.com 30