Q: Can jCloud 1.7.3 be used with Guava 16.0.1, assuming that I use JDK 1.7 u60.
Unfortunately not - see the 1.7.3 release notes [1]. The current 1.8.0-SNAPSHOT (which uses Guava 17.0) is the only version of jclouds supporting Guava 16 or above.
ap [1] http://jclouds.apache.org/releasenotes/1.7.3/
