The Lombok stuff is pretty nasty, all kinds of hacks to hook into the compiler internals in unnatural ways. If you want those features just use a language which provides them, rather than awkwardly bolting them onto a language that doesn't.

If you like lombok you might also like the Autovalue plugin from Google: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1THRUCIzIPRqFSHb67pHV8KMb...

jdk8 completely breaks the entire value we get out of using joda-time, namely, that instants are unambiguous. It actually recommends using time and date without time zone.