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Using the @Singular Annotation with Lombok Builders 1. Overview The Lombok library provides a great way of simplifying data objects. One of the key features of Project Lombok is the @Builder annotation, which automatically creates Builder classes for creating immutable objects. However, populating collections in our objects can be clumsy… Continue Reading lombok-builder-singular
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Lombok Builder with Default Value 1. Introduction In this quick tutorial, we’ll investigate how can we provide default values for attributes when using the builder pattern with Lombok. Make sure to check out our intro to Lombok as well. 2. Dependencies We’ll use Lombok in this tutorial, and for that,… Continue Reading lombok-builder-default-value
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Using Lombok’s @Builder Annotation 1. Overview Project Lombok’s @Builder is a useful mechanism for using the Builder pattern without writing boilerplate code. We can apply this annotation to a Class or a method. In this brief tutorial, we’ll look at the different use cases for @Builder. 2. Maven Dependencies First, we need to add Project Lombok… Continue Reading lombok-builder
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Constructor Injection in Spring with Lombok 1. Introduction Lombok is an extremely useful library overcoming boilerplate code. If you are not familiar with it yet, I highly recommend taking a look at the previous tutorial – Introduction to Project Lombok. In this article, we’ll demonstrate its usability when combined with… Continue Reading spring-injection-lombok
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Lombok Builder with Custom Setter 1. Introduction Project Lombok is a popular Java library to help reduce the amount of boilerplate code a developer needs to write. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at how Lombok’s @Builder annotation works and how we can customize it for our specific needs. 2. Maven… Continue Reading lombok-builder-custom-setter
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Lombok @Builder with Inheritance 1. Overview The Lombok library provides a great way to implement the Builder Pattern without writing any boilerplate code: the @Builder annotation. In this short tutorial, we’re specifically going to learn how to deal with the @Builder annotation when inheritance is involved. We will demonstrate two techniques.… Continue Reading lombok-builder-inheritance
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Using Lombok’s @Getter for Boolean Fields 1. Introduction Project Lombok is a popular library for reducing Java boilerplate. In this quick tutorial, we’ll take a look at how Lombok’s @Getter annotation works on boolean fields to remove the need to create its corresponding getter methods. 2. Maven Dependency Let’s start by adding… Continue Reading lombok-getter-boolean
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Setting up Lombok with Eclipse and Intellij 1. Overview Lombok is a library which facilitates many tedious tasks and reduces Java source code verbosity. Of course, we usually want to be able to use the library in an IDE, which requires additional setup. In this tutorial, we’ll talk about configuring… Continue Reading lombok-ide
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Introduction to Project Lombok Lombok is one of the tools I literally always drop into my projects builds the first. I couldn’t imagine myself programming Java without it these days. I really hope you find its power reading this article! 1. Avoid Repetitive Code Java is a great language but… Continue Reading intro-to-project-lombok
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Implementing a Custom Lombok Annotation 1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll implement a custom annotation using Lombok to remove the boiler-plate around implementing Singletons in an application. Lombok is a powerful Java library that aims to reduce the boiler-plate code in Java. If you’re not familiar with it, here you… Continue Reading lombok-custom-annotation
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