Actually I never understood the need for get/setters anyway (course I know the book). C++ got along well without.
Cheers Murray Altheim <murra...@altheim.com> schrieb am Di., 9. Aug. 2022, 16:12: > On 2022/08/09 22:55, Jürgen Weber wrote: > > Java 11 would be OK. Not more. Enterprises are very conservative. > > Agreed, my current job is largely upgrading dozens and dozens of JDK 8 > applications which have had no love for over a decade. I'm not so sure > if this is the result of being conservative so much as executive > management's typical desire to build New Things rather than maintain > Old Things, or possibly The World of Constant Emergencies. > > > Also, I do not see why a mature product like JSPWiki should be > > refactored to use newer Java features. > I'm not a fan of using new features simply because they're new, but I > have found some of the Java 11 features result in cleaner and less > verbose code, e.g., some of the streaming syntax removes a lot of lines > of boilerplate. This can be (like many things) abused and make things > harder to either read or understand, but on balance I've gotten used to > using many of the Java 11 features. Post JDK 11, I've found little of > real value so far. > > On one of my larger personal projects I experimented recently with > trying to back-date the code to JDK 8 and found that I'm very much a > Java 11 person now, as almost none of the classes compiled as I'd used > a lot of the new syntax. > > I've also previously suggested Lombok, which has for me become somewhat > of a standard for all new code*. It removes all the pointless getters and > setters, and with @Builder one effectively gets a DSL. Combining Lombok > with an enum class really cleans up a lot of ugly use of integer contants, > such as found in WikiPageEvent. I'd be happy to help out with migrating > to Java 11, simply to get rid of that kind of thing... > > Cheers, > > Murray > > * I really wish Lombok were adopted into the Java syntax itself. > ........................................................................... > Murray Altheim <murray18 at altheim dot com> = = === > http://www.altheim.com/murray/ === > === > = = > === > In the evening > The rice leaves in the garden > Rustle in the autumn wind > That blows through my reed hut. > -- Minamoto no Tsunenobu > >
