[bhauer]

At least with respect to checked exceptions, my read of modern popular convention is simply to avoid using checked exceptions unless there is a very strong use-case. In our own code, we have transitioned to using predominantly unchecked exceptions with no decrease in code quality that we have yet perceived.

Agreed on assuming the trivial getters and setters if they are not expressly defined. That would be nice.

As for modifying variables in lambdas, you need to have a final reference available, meaning you can't modify a primitive. However, you can accomplish roughly the same thing by using a final reference to a boxed (or if parallel, atomic) primitive.