The Magic of Using Lombok in Spring

1. Overview

Lombok is a Java library that simplifies a lot of things for developers. Like the automatic creation of getters/setters, constructors, etc. For a more detailed list of features click on the reference below.

2. Lombok Installation

Follow this guide: https://projectlombok.org/setup/eclipse.

After that make sure to close Spring STS and run with -clean parameter to enable the plugin.

>sts.exe -clean

3. Spring Project

To demonstrate the power of Lombok library I created a Spring REST API demo project that features a REST API where the entity fields have auto getter/setter generation.

As a bonus, this project is also HATEOS enabled.

The project is available at https://github.com/czetsuya/Spring-Lombok.

References:

• https://projectlombok.org/