Comment by tharkun__

Don't get me wrong, I've used Lombok and liked it from the working with it and what it saves you aspect.

We do use spring and I've used it for a very long time now. Nothing is magic and not understandable about wiring if you do it right. Unfortunately there are a lot of projects out there that use it in exactly the wrong way if you ask me and then I'd agree with you.

I used to be in a company where we used XML config and everything was wired explicitly. The XML part sucked but with SpringIDE (eclipse at the time) it was Ctrl-clickable to find what's what.

We use Java config with Spring at my current company and I can Ctrl-click my way through it all and find what's what. There's a small corner of 'package-scan'ed stuff that is evil but we are cleaning that up.