What's the best way to setup the eclipse project compiler configuration for Java 6 annotation processors?
My solution is to setup the org.eclipse.jdt.apt.core.prefs
and factorypath
files manually. This is a bit cumbersome:
(org.eclipse.jdt.apt.genSrcDir
property in org.eclipse.jdt.apt.core.prefs
)One problem is that eclipse generated sources will be compiled with maven. Only maven clean compile
is reliable as it removes the eclipse generated source files. (Eclipse and javac generated source files could be out of sync.)
Is there are better solution to configure maven without eclipse generated source files at the maven source path?
<project>
<properties>
<eclipse.generated.src>${project.build.directory}/eclipse</eclipse.generated.src>
</properties>
<build>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>add-source</id>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<goals> <goal>add-source</goal> </goals>
<configuration>
<sources>
<source>${eclipse.generated.src}</source>
</sources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<additionalConfig>
<file> <name>.factorypath</name>
<content><![CDATA[<factorypath>
<factorypathentry kind="VARJAR" id="M2_REPO/processor/processor.jar" enabled="true" runInBatchMode="false"/>
</factorypath>
]]> </content>
</file>
<file>
<name>.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.apt.core.prefs</name>
<content><![CDATA[
eclipse.preferences.version=1
org.eclipse.jdt.apt.aptEnabled=true
org.eclipse.jdt.apt.genSrcDir=${eclipse.generated.src}
org.eclipse.jdt.apt.reconcileEnabled=true
]]> </content>
</file>
</additionalConfig>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Update: You could try using the apt-maven-plugin. It currently provides three goals:
You can configure the goals to run as part of your build as follows:
<build>
...
<plugins>
...
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>apt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0-alpha-2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>process</goal>
<goal>test-process</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
...
</build>
By default the output directory is set to ${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/apt
,
There is an open Jira against the compiler plugin to add APT support for Java 6, you can go and vote for it if this is something you want to to see in future versions.
I am using http://code.google.com/p/maven-annotation-plugin/ wich is simpler to configure. You can use it in two ways:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.bsc.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-processor-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>process</id>
<goals>
<goal>process</goal>
</goals>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<configuration>
<compilerArguments>-encoding ${project.build.sourceEncoding}</compilerArguments>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.bsc.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-processor-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>process-test</id>
<goals>
<goal>process-test</goal>
</goals>
<phase>generate-test-sources</phase>
<configuration>
<compilerArguments>-encoding ${project.build.sourceEncoding}</compilerArguments>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.6</source>
<target>1.6</target>
<encoding>${project.build.sourceEncoding}</encoding>
<!-- Disable annotation processors during normal compilation -->
<compilerArgument>-proc:none</compilerArgument>
</configuration>
</plugin>
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