Re: [eclipse.org-committers] Users of projectlombok.org at eclipse.org?

[Markus Keller <markus_keller@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Are there any concerns about using Project Lombok
at Eclipse?

Lombok creates an incompatible dialect of the Java
language and it modifies the IDE and the compiler in unsupported ways.
While the goal sounds noble, Lombok can't be shipped with Eclipse in its
current form.

See e.g. http://jnb.ociweb.com/jnb/jnbJan2010.html#controversy
and
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9bb1e/project_lombok_automatic_resource_management_for/c0c5f7o

Markus

From:	Marcel Bruch <bruch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:	eclipse.org-committers@xxxxxxxxxxx,
Date:	2012-01-03 23:14
Subject:	[eclipse.org-committers] Users of projectlombok.org at eclipse.org?

---

Hi there,

before we start: A happy new year!

Little more than a month ago Denis mentioned that this list's purpose is
to ask questions related to committer topics. So here is one that bothers
me for a while now (hope this list is the right place to ask this question).

I frequently stumble over little annoying things like missing toString
methods, boilerplate code for getters and setters, as well as "implementing
hashCode" and "equals" etc. Most implementations look the
same. For instance, hashCode, toString and equals almost always look as
follows in our code:

public int hashCode(){
   return org.apache.commons.lang3.HashCodeBuilder.reflectiveHashCode(this)
}

public boolean equals(Object other){
   return org.apache.commons.lang3.EqualsBuilder.reflectiveEquals(this,other)
}

public String toString(){
   return org.apache.commons.lang3.ToStringBuilder.reflectiveToString(this)
}

Project Lombok aims to assist developers here by using annotations such
as @ToString or @EqualsAndHashCode. See the screencast on http://projectlombok.org/
for more details on it. http://projectlombok.org/features/
gives a pretty fast overview of its features. It seems that there is also
an integration into Eclipse and into Maven to run the code generation as
part of your build. For the IDE Integration Lombok patches the code so
that it "sees" the generated methods but does not require you
to actually write it in source.


My questions to the list:

Does any project/committer use Project Lombok?
Does any project/committer use Spring Roo (which seems to be "not
that far away")?
Are there any concerns about using Project Lombok at Eclipse?


Thanks,
Marcel

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