com.sun.mirror.apt API

Question

I'm new to Java and I am getting an error via Eclipse on the following lines:

import com.sun.mirror.apt.AnnotationProcessorFactory;
import com.sun.mirror.apt.AnnotationProcessor;
import com.sun.mirror.apt.AnnotationProcessorEnvironment;

The error is "The import com.sun.mirror cannot be resolved".

How do I fix this error?

Answer 1

To the point: just put it in the classpath (buildpath, in Eclipse). You can download it here.

However, this use is not really recommended. Rather use the standard API classes and methods in the javax.annotation.processing API which are already inside the standard Java SE API. It will "behind the scenes" use the right classes for the desired tasks.