Immutables 2.0 for sexy Immutable Object Creation and more

Sun, 26 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0200

Using immutable objects in Java (and other programming languages as well) is a good thing because immutable objects may be shared safely, are thread-safe and reduce the risk of side effects in your applications.

Nowadays multiple frameworks exist to reduce the need of writing boilerplate code here but there is one special framework whose features I’d like to demonstrate in the following short tutorial.

It hooks into your application using annotation processing and generates type-safe builders, toString, hashCode, equals methods for you, supports lazy attributes, singleton instances, serialization into data-formats like JSON and a lot of other features,too.

Hashcode on Micha Kops' Tech Notes

Immutables 2.0 for sexy Immutable Object Creation and more