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+title: Java integration woes
+tags: java,kotlin
+date: 2016-08-18 21:26:13
+format: md
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+Just a quick note on the JVM ecosystem since I've been wrestling with getting
+several different technologies to work together:  It's a mess really.
+
+The specific setup in this case is a mostly Java based project, sprinkled with
+some Kotlin code (which I only expect to grow in the future), using Maven as
+the build system.  Added to that some Kotlin annotations (in lieu of using
+Kotlin in the first place).
+
+Todays (and yesterdays) adventure was trying to get the Error Prone checker
+integrated with the existing system, which proved quite impossible, due to the
+fact that it's using a modified compiler(!) which conflicts with the use of
+Lombok annotation processing.
+
+There are workarounds in the sense that Lombok can also be used to produce
+processed Java files (instead of byte code generation), however it seems like
+that process is less capable than the IDEA / internal processing and would have
+me remove a lot of `val` instances that didn't get their type inferred
+properly, making it an arduous process.
+
+Summing this up, the fact that these tools integrate on different levels of the
+"stack", while also making tinkering with it relatively hard due to byte code
+generation, complicates this endeavour greatly.  In the end I resolved to drop
+the Error Prone integration in favour of the much easier to setup SonarQube
+platform.  I also hope that annotation processing for Lombok will improve such
+that we don't need workarounds in case of "invisible" getters anymore, for
+example.