Hear ye, hear ye,
The apt tool and associated API that were deprecated in JDK 7 have been
removed from JDK 8 [1], as previously discussed in JEP 117 [2].
Therefore, near future promoted builds of JDK 8 will include neither the
apt command line tool in $JDK/bin nor any of the apt API.
As has long been recommended [3], annotation processing should migrate
to the standardized JSR 269 functionality, which has been included in
javac since JDK 6.
-Joe
[1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/e55522710586
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/langtools/rev/2360c8213989
[2] JEP 117: Remove the Annotation-Processing Tool (apt),
http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/117
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/compiler-dev/2011-November/003704.html
[3] "An apt replacement,"
http://blogs.oracle.com/darcy/entry/an_apt_replacement
