Prefer Guava IO helpers
Prefer ByteSource over String Payload
Consistently gather and emit blob metadata
Remove O(container) call to BlobStore.countBlobs
Updating the examples after the 1.7.2 release

Also aligning POMs
JCLOUDS-346: Update Rackspace Cloud Files Examples
Reorder the deps and better comments
Add an example of using jclouds to create a GCE instance (based on a Rackspace example)
Adding an example to delete a server in GCE
Print a single container's metadata instead of all
Prefer Files.asCharSink over FileWriter
Prefer Files.write over Files.asCharSink
Prefer File.delete over File.deleteOnExit

The former has deterministic behavior and avoids resource leaks.
Fixes a small typo
JCLOUDS-546: Remove Javadoc @author annotations

Annotations removed with:

find -name \*.java | xargs sed -i /@author/d

Empty Javadoc removed with multiple iterations of:

find -name \*.java | xargs sed -i -z 's/ \*\n \*\// \*\//'
find -name \*.java | xargs sed -i -z 's/ \* \n \*\// \*\//'
find -name \*.java | xargs sed -i -z 's/\/\*\*\n \*\/\n//'
Updating Google examples pom.xml

See similarly recent changes to the Rackspace one.
Small improvements to the CreateServer GCE example.
Updated Cloud Files examples for 1.7.3
Fixes to Cloud Files examples from PR #50
Remove trailing whitespace