Introduce gem as replacement of hickory:prism

[sjaakd]

hickory:prism is no longer maintained, but is a useful framework to handle annotations in an annotation processor such as MapStruct. Hence, a tool has been created to replace hickory on the MapStruct organisation: org.mapstruct.tools.gem. This issue handles the introduction of this tool.

[filiphr]

For traceability, the tool is located at https://github.com/mapstruct/tools-gem

[gunnarmorling]

Ha, that's interesting. Is gem derived from Hickory, or is it a complete new implementation? Nice job in any case!

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[sjaakd]

Ha, that's interesting. Is gem derived from Hickory, or is it a complete new implementation? Nice job in any case!

Its a new implementation.. We optimised stuff, but it derives its ideas from Hickory ..

[gunnarmorling]

Really cool! Perhaps do a quick blog post about it? It's quite a niche topic for sure, but still might find its readers :)

[sjaakd]

I believe that @filiphr was going to write something 😄 .. But I'll help out of course

[sjaakd]

(I'm not a good blogger)...

[gunnarmorling]

Haha, I was waiting for you to say this ;)

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[sjaakd]

Haha, I was waiting for you to say this ;)

becoming predictable..

[filiphr]

Yup I was about to write something this weekend.

Prepared a blog post filiphr/mapstruct.org@ad70799. Let me know what you think