There are many times that I've wished I had found a nice way to autogenerate things while creating a bunch of redundant primitive methods.
There are half a zillion methods for generating code, starting with Bash/Sed/Perl hacks, leading to dedicated macro languages like the C preprocessor and m4, continuing with a variety of web templating languages like PHP, there's XSLT and finally high level stuff like lex/yacc, ANTLR and all the other grammar generators.
The recurrent problems: - Need dedicated Ant tasks (Make was a bit easier here) - IDEs rarely handle them well - Tracking compile and runtime errors caused by generated code to the ultimate source isn't well supported and often painful
I personally use ad-hoc generators mainly to bootstrap code, once the bulk of the code is stable, I abandon them.
J.Pietschmann
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