There are various places around leveluplunch that show the power of guava's Maps
utility class such as convert list to map, convert properties to map, filter map by entries, filter map by values, filter map by keys and initialize map. This example will try to bring it together in one page.
Setup
Initialize map
Convert list to map
Output
Convert properties to map
Output
Filter map by entries
Output
Filter map by keys
Output
Filter map by values
Output