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Andrey Kogun

Andrey Kogun

Development Expert at CROC Inc., Russia

Andrei has been working in IT for more than 15 years, for the last 8 years — in CROC. During his career, he took part in many custom development projects, mainly e-document flow systems and business processes automatization for several big Russian companies as a senior developer and an architect.

At the universities of Moscow, he delivers lectures in development basics with the use of Java technologies. Organizer and leader of Moscow Java developers community.

Speaker's activity
Know-how as code: the (Java) developer’s guide to the code generation
Talk
Russian

Java developers, especially those who are engaged in custom development, are constantly struggling to write less boilerplate code, be it trivial setters, getters, constructors, etc. or CRUD repositories and controllers. Often the answer is code generation in different forms: source code generation support in IDE, bytecode generation using Lombok, annotation processors generating new code, various frameworks that allow you to get an (almost) ready-made application from the model description and much more, not excluding new and traditional JVM languages that allow you to write more concise code and implement DSL for solving applied problems.

With undeniable benefits in the simplest cases, there are some limitations that do not allow to realize what is required in a particular project, and worst of all, when the generated code becomes a source of hardly detectable defects, and special crutches on top of generated code are needed to fix it.

In this talk, we will give a retrospective of the most commonly used approaches, overview their strengths, limitations and practical applicability, and most importantly, we’ll try to take control of the code generation situation so that it becomes a really useful tool for an effective developer.