I used Lombock as an example what we can do with built-in JDK features. Not 
suggesting we actually use Lombock. 

> On Mar 2, 2016, at 1:28 AM, Aristedes Maniatis <a...@maniatis.org> wrote:
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> On 1/03/2016 10:55pm, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
>> Maybe it is time to start using compile annotation processors in Cayenne? 
>> E.g. see this video:
>> 
>> https://projectlombok.org/
> 
> My concern is that since it is a hack that uses undocumented bits of the JDK, 
> moving to new releases of Java may be significantly delayed.
> 
> I'd love to see the JDK adopt many Lombok features (or even many of the 
> similar features in Groovy with implicit getters and setters), but I'd be 
> worried about us *requiring* Lombok as something that many developers will 
> have a strong opinion about.
> 
> I'm also not really sure what problem is solves for us. All the boilerplate 
> is neatly tucked away in the superclasses, so why do we care?
> 
> Ari
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