Lightning Talk – Creating Java based Source Code Generators for Bazel
summary
Salesforce migrates a large Java codebase to Bazel and converts many custom Java source generators by first porting one complex generator, turning it into a reusable template applied to 25+ generators, and then rolling that template across the rest in minutes. Builds use persistent workers to avoid per-run JVM startup, dependencies are fetched with rules_jvm_external, PicoCLI wraps existing mains into clean CLIs, generated sources remain uncommitted, and overall Bazel builds cut the old Maven monolith times roughly in half.
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