Java code generation

Question

I am looking for nice (java) code generation engine. I have found cglib but it is very poorly documented and I am not quite sure that it can generate actual java classes (files) and only dynamic classes. If I am wrong maybe someone knows has a link with an example.

Roman

Answer 1

Have a look at codemodel, used with success for my projects.

Answer 2

Didn't really try, but you may want to take a look at another code generation Java framework called Javassist, which also has pretty thorough tutorial. Also Hibernate changed code generation framework from cglib to javassist. Quote, explaining why:

The simple fact of the matter is that development on CGLIB has largely stopped. It happens. Developers for whatever reason (the reasons are their own) move on to new priorities.

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