+
+ Imagine you have a very simple class:
+
public class Mountain {
+ private final String name;
+ private final double latitude, longitude;
+ private String country;
+}
+
+ While that is fairly clear, that class is not complete. In fact, it won't compile like that.
+ You'll need to add a constructor to initialize those final fields, you probably want getters, a setter for country,
+ and to be complete, a nice toString as well as an implementation for equals and hashCode.
+ Eclipse can generate all these methods for you, but then you end up with over 70 lines of boilerplate. It's going to be hard
+ to see any surprises buried amongst all those lines of code! Lombok has the answer to this problem.
+
+ So instead of this mess:
+
+ lombok simply offers you an annotation that tells eclipse to generate all this stuff for us silently, without
+ cluttering up your source file, like so:
+
+
+ Note how we haven't even saved the file yet, but in the outline view you can already see all the various methods generated
+ by the @Data annotation. That's because lombok is completely integrated into eclipse. The moment you type
+ the last character of your annotation, all the methods exist, just as if you write the last character on a method declaration.
+ In other words, lombok is not just an annotation processor!
+
+ But what about your build process? Lombok works just as well in
javac. All you need to do is add
+
lombok.jar to the class path as you compile. Like so:
+
+
+
@Data is nice, but its certainly not the only boilerplate buster that lombok has to offer. If you need
+ more fine grained control, there's
@Getter and
@Setter, and to help you in correctly
+ cleaning up your resources,
@Cleanup can automatically and without cluttering your source files generate
+ try/finally blocks to safely call
close() on your resource objects. That's not all, but for the complete
+ list you'll need to head over to the
feature overview.
+
+ Ready to install lombok? Start by clicking the download button at the top of this page. Going from clicking that button
+ to having your eclipse ready to go takes less than 12 seconds - it's that simple.
+
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