Has anyone in the community ever looked at using Project Lombok[1] to help simplify our source code? I stumbled across this a couple of years back and thought it was pretty useful. Just never had a chance to use it with anything...
Whilst I sympathize with the desire to avoid boilerplate, I'm not convinced bytecode generation a la Lombok is the way to go.
Last time I used it, it was not exactly easy to get it hooked up with Eclipse (so that you can still use syntax completion etc. on the generated methods), and I'm pretty sure there are more IDEs out there in use by the jclouds community.
In short: if you can find a way to hook it up to your *local* development process so that it's not visible in the committed code, that would certainly be interesting to hear about. But I agree with the general sentiment that it would be better not to introduce it into the general codebase.
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