[piva00]

It's not Java itself, it's design decisions on the tooling that Google provides for Java, mostly the protobuf-gen plugin.

At my company we found some workarounds to the issues brought up on GP but it's annoying the tooling is a bit subpar.

[bborud]

Have you tried the buf.build tools? Especially the remote code generation and package generation may make life easier for you.

a couple of links

https://buf.build/protocolbuffers/java?version=v29.3 https://buf.build/docs/bsr/generated-sdks/maven