daadry.blogg.se - Java code generator open source

They may still study at the university or not even born.

And we do not know them as they are not even selected. The reason is that the code has to be maintained by the developers who come after us. They told me to scrap the code I wrote, and keep creating the toMap() and fromMap() manually.

They were created and maintained manually. Before that, we had toMap() and fromMap() methods in all classes that needed this functionality. What I created was a single class that was doing some reflection “magic” converting objects to maps and back. (It does not stop though some of them trying even in a professional environment, which is contradictory as it is not professional.) You need a team. Not really a framework, like Spring or Hibernate because a single developer cannot develop anything like that. Solving a problem I created a mini-framework.

It may happen to you what has happened to me a few years back. They are not bad either, but they, as the name suggests, are average. And, there is a very specific feature of the average developers: they are not good. However, when you write a code you should also consider the average developer Joe or Jane, who will some time in the future maintain your program. You are well above the average developer last but not least because you are open and interested in new things proven by the fact that you are reading this article. When I talk about the “sub-par developer” I do not mean You.

the environment, some framework is sub-par.ĭo not feel offended.

the programming language is sub-par, or.

the developer creating the code is sub-par,.

When the best option is to generate source code then there is something wrong or at least suboptimal in the system. I discussed it already in the referenced article, but here we go again. Unfortunately, or for the sake of my little tool, there are enough occasions when manual code generation is not an option, or at least automated code generation seems to be a better option. I know, and still, the statement is that you have to write all the code you can manually. Weird statement, especially when I promote a FOSS tool that is exactly targeting Java code generation. You should not generate code unless you really have to. I have already written an article a year ago about code generation and I have not changed my mind. If there is a possibility for the purpose you have to generate the code manually. This is the answer to the question set in the title. I will also describe the architecture and the ideas (the kind of eureka moment) of a specific tool that generates code at a specific phase. In this article, I will talk about the different phases of software development where the source code can be generated programmatically and I will compare the different approaches.