Boilerplate and annotations are two wildly different beasts on my understanding : Boilerplate is things I have to repeat mindlessly every time I want to do som

Boilerplate and annotations are two wildly different beasts on my understanding : Boilerplate is things I have to repeat mindlessly every time I want to do something. Annotations on the other hand usually is one single line of code. Disclaimer : not a native English speaker although I am fairly sure about this. Edit: look at hodao from the tomitribe GitHub account. Or DeltaSpike from Apache.