Google Best Practices for Java Libraries are rules that minimize problems for consumers of interconnected Java libraries. These practices come from decades of aggregated experience in maintaining open source Java libraries and are informed by many hard-learned lessons from mistakes that have been made. We have found that following these rules results in higher quality Java libraries with fewer dependency conflicts and other kinds of problems. The list is open-ended, so new ones may be added from time to time.
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