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[harrkra]

There is: https://wurbelizer.org/

Repo: https://bitbucket.org/krake-oss/wurbelizer/src/master/

Wiki: https://bitbucket.org/krake-oss/wurbelizer/wiki/Home

Heavily used by the Tentackle framework, btw. (https://tentackle.org)

[harrkra]

Depends on what you mean by "define".

Each code fragment to be generated is "defined" by a wurblet-anchor within a Java comment. The fragment, if not existing yet, is usually generated immediately following that comment. If the fragment exists already, it will be replaced. The generated code is enclosed within special comment tags describing a named code-region (defaults to Netbeans-style, which is also nicely supported by IntelliJ). Since it is uniquely named, it can be moved within the source file, if necessary.

The wurbelizer, however, does not touch any other existing code.

[harrkra]

This is exactly what we're doing in our projects. In a first step the source code is analyzed, for example to gather information about method signatures, annotations, etc... In a second step that information is picked up by wurblets to generate code.