Figured it out. Accidentally was using the arq-jbossas-remote profile for my project rather than the default config which was pulling in the google-collections jar as pointed out above.
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Figured it out. Accidentally was using the arq-jbossas-remote profile for my project rather than the default config which was pulling in the google-collections jar as pointed out above.