Editing Java Pain Reduction Techniques

== Use another language == Java is an okay language. There are better languages, many of which now run on the JVM and have interoperability with Java libraries and code you've written in Java: * JRuby * Jython * Scala * Clojure * Groovy Of these, I tend to use JRuby for little scripts and I use Scala as my main Java replacement language, since you can pretty much do with Scala anything you can do with Java, but it just looks and feels nicer. == Use Lombok == [http://projectlombok.org/ Project Lombok] reduces the amount of boilerplate you have to write in Java. Use it.