Thanks for all of the feedback here. It is good to get some additional perspective on this!
/jd On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Andrew Phillips <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > > ap >
