🔧 Source View Technology: Combining the Strengths of APT and AST

Background


Take Lombok as an example: at compile time, it reads annotations like @Getter and @Setter through an Annotation Processor (APT, Annotation Processing Tool), then directly modifies the AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) in memory, injecting getter/setter methods for fields. Developers only need to annotate fields, and the compiled .class files...