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Re: Annotations processing + type introspection + code generation

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On 12.09.2011 20:00, Alex J wrote:
> On Sep 12, 8:56 pm, Robert Klemme<shortcut...@googlemail.com>  wrote:
>> [snip]
>> Why do you want to generate code?  I mean, you could process annotations
>> at runtime.  Create appropriate classes for the handling and configure
>> appropriate graphs of objects which do the work (or even use reflection).
>
> I need to generate *source* code, the boilerplate code is complex
> enough, unfortunately bytecode is not an option.
>
> One of the reason why I need generated code is that the boilerplate
> code is quite sofisticated, learning generated docs and debugging the
> generated code most likely will be required.
>
> There are other reasons, but I think that this one would be
> sufficient.

Hm...  If you need to generate a lot identical code there is something 
wrong: that identical code could be better implemented directly and 
used.  So that leaves adapters and stuff Mark mentioned for generation. 
  I am not convinced yet that it is a good idea to generate loads of 
complex code.

Can you shed some more light on the nature of the application you are 
going to implement?

Kind regards

	robert

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Annotations processing + type introspection + code generation Alex J <vstrength@gmail.com> - 2011-09-12 06:21 -0700
  Re: Annotations processing + type introspection + code generation Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-09-12 18:56 +0200
    Re: Annotations processing + type introspection + code generation markspace <-@.> - 2011-09-12 10:04 -0700
      Re: Annotations processing + type introspection + code generation Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-09-12 19:22 +0200
        Re: Annotations processing + type introspection + code generation Alex J <vstrength@gmail.com> - 2011-09-12 11:08 -0700
    Re: Annotations processing + type introspection + code generation Alex J <vstrength@gmail.com> - 2011-09-12 11:00 -0700
      Re: Annotations processing + type introspection + code generation Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-09-12 20:21 +0200
        Re: Annotations processing + type introspection + code generation Alex J <vstrength@gmail.com> - 2011-09-12 15:06 -0700

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