Hi Russ,
Does anybody have a working example of custom annotation processing in > Maven that they could share? I'm finding the documentation on this to be > frustratingly sparse. I can find a page claiming to describe a plugin for > annotation processing, but it doesn't actually give examples of what it's > supposed to do or how to use it. > I agree that documentation on custom annotation processing is hard to find. My team uses a library called SezPoz (http://sezpoz.java.net/) which provides a custom annotation processor, which operates at compile time using Java6's Pluggable Annotation Processing API. Since command-line Maven uses the installed system Java, which will usually be either Oracle's Javac or the OpenJDK one, such custom annotation processors will function as long as you are running at least Java6. (With Java5 it is also possible, but you have to jump through some extra hoops.) So for my team, our SezPoz-related annotations "just work" with no additional configuration within Maven whatsoever. If you need to write your own custom annotation processor, you could study the SezPoz source code for a working example. For further reading, you can check the Javadocs: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/annotation/processing/Processor.html If you meant some sort of Maven-specific custom annotation processing, then I don't know of such a feature. But as I said, Maven (via Javac) should invoke your annotation processors out of the box. HTH, Curtis P.S. Beware of Eclipse: it does not run compile-time annotation processors automatically, but must be specifically configured to do so: http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.isv/guide/jdt_apt_getting_started.htm https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=280542 For our projects with SezPoz, we commit two key files to the VCS to force Eclipse to behave properly immediately (rather than needing to dig around in the Eclipse project settings UI): https://github.com/imagej/imagej/blob/master/core/core/.factorypath https://github.com/imagej/imagej/blob/master/core/core/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.apt.core.prefs On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Russell Gold <russell.g...@oracle.com>wrote: > Does anybody have a working example of custom annotation processing in > Maven that they could share? I'm finding the documentation on this to be > frustratingly sparse. I can find a page claiming to describe a plugin for > annotation processing, but it doesn't actually give examples of what it's > supposed to do or how to use it. > > Also, how do you search the mailing list archives? I had expected that to > be a FAQ, but there doesn't appear to be a FAQ for this list. > > Thanks in advance, > Russ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
