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If you want less typing, then you definitely want Lombok ( https://projectlombok.org/ ). At JavaOne this year, they also showed a proposed shortcut for data object (@Data in Lombok). public class something(String name, int age) { ... }
I'm embarrassed to say that I've never understood the use case for Lombok. So, I write my code in Java with Lombok extensions. Then, another Java programmer goes to maintain it... and they have to learn Lombok?
That was my reaction the first time I was introduced to it. I looked at it again two years later and it just clicked. What's really cool is that the developer who has to go maintain it has 20% as much code to maintain.
Say you want a POJO with accessors, mutators along with equals and hashcode. Let it generate the methods by defining a class like:
@Data
public class something {
String name;
int age;
}
public String getName() { ... }
public void setName(String name) { ... }
public int getAge() { ... }
public void setAge(int age) { ... }
public boolean equals(Something other) { ... }
public int hashcode() { ... }
public String toString() { ... }