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@@ -2,11 +2,64 @@ Guavate
 ====
 
 This is a single jar dependency for Guavate written by Stephen Colebourne and included as part of 
-[Strata](https://github.com/OpenGamma/Strata) under the Apache 2 License. 
+[Strata](https://github.com/OpenGamma/Strata) under the Apache 2 License.  Guavate code is Copyright (C) 2014 - 
+present by OpenGamma Inc. and the OpenGamma group of companies.
 
-Guavate code is Copyright (C) 2014 - present by OpenGamma Inc. and the OpenGamma group of companies
+In order to be able to use Guavate simply from many of my projects without depending on Strata, I have released it
+here as a simple tiny library (and added a few of my own additions).
+
+### Getting Started
 
 To use this library with some Maven compatible dependency management tool, use
-````xml
 
-````
+```xml
+<dependency>
+    <groupId>com.github.steveash.guavate</groupId>
+    <artifactId>guavate</artifactId>
+    <version>1.0.0</version>
+</dependency>
+```
+
+or in gradle `compile 'com.github.steveash.guavate:guavate:1.0.0'`
+
+This depends on 
+* Guava v19 (though 18 should work as well)
+* Apache Commons Lang3 v3.4 (though any lang3 version will work; just for the Pair type)
+
+### Example Usage
+There are Collector implementations for each of the Immutable collections:
+
+```java
+List<String> inputs = Lists.newArrayList("a", "b", "c");
+ImmutableSet<String> outputs = inputs.stream()
+    .map(String::toUpperCase)
+    .filter(it -> !it.startsWith("b"))
+    .collect(Guavate.toImmutableSet());
+// outputs is an immutable set of "a" and "c"
+```
+
+There are also some convenient methods for collecting to maps from 
+Map.Entry (and Common-Lang3's Pair as it implements Entry):
+
+```java
+Map<String, Integer> inputs = ImmutableMap.of("bob", 1, "jon", 2, "mary", 3);
+Map<String,Integer> outputs = inputs.entrySet().stream()
+    .map(e -> Pair.of(e.getKey().toUpperCase(), e.getValue()))
+    .collect(Guavate.entriesToMap());
+// outputs is a map of BOB:1, JON:2, MARY:3
+```
+
+Converting an arbitrary iterable into a stream (which should've been in the JDK
+to begin with):
+
+```java
+Iterable<String> values = // ...
+Stream<String> streamVals = Guavate.stream(values);
+```
+
+and converting an Optional<T> into a stream of zero or one element:
+
+```java
+Optional<String> maybe = // ...
+Stream<String> stream = Guavate.stream(maybe);
+```