Anyone that has used the builder pattern for building simple Pojo-style Java classes is probably aware that writing these builder classes quickly becomes quite unpleasant and definitely not fun. You quickly realize that your builders often mimic the structure of your Pojo’s setters, finding yourself almost duplicating half of Pojo’s code for the sake of the pattern. Following a recent post from Eric Mignot and a few prior reflections I had on optimizing the process of writing these builders, I have come up with a solution that will, I hope, greatly simplify trivial cases (that is, building simple pojos) and, eventually, as the tool evolves, allow for slightly more complex cases to be covered. Read more...