I haven't used Lombok due to similar reasons as Jens described but have had really great success with annotation processing libraries like Immutables ( http://immutables.github.io/), AutoValue, etc. I've even started writing my own annotation processors to help reduce boilerplate.
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 12:37 PM Jens <jens.nehlme...@gmail.com> wrote: > If its just for value classes and factories you better use Google's > AutoValue / AutoFactory projects which are based on annotation processing > instead of hacking the Java compiler as Lombok does. > > Personally I would never use Lombok. As it adds code during compilation, > that code is invisible to tools that work on Java source. IMHO Lombok is > fragile and can break easily with any JDK update, you can also see this in > the changelog as it contains quite some "Bugfix: X breaks starting with JDK > Y". The reason is that Lombok relies on the com.sun.tools.javac package > which is considered a private API. > > So I would generally advice using annotation processors instead. > > -- J. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GWT Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
