Re: annotation processing in eclipse

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Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>

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Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:17:26 -0500

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stc wrote:

"Lew" <lew@lewscanon.com> wrote in message
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Lew wrote:
Annotations have to be processed by a processor aware of the annotations.
At a minimum you need a library that implements JSR 181 in your project.
It might be that Eclipse doesn't have logic to handle these annotations,
but perhaps there is a plugin that will remedy that. It seems that
NetBeans is equipped to handle JSR 181 automagically for you right out of
the box.

Eclipse has something under Project Properties - Java Compiler - Annotations
Processing but nothing happens when I configure it. Truth be told, there's
something "Plug-ins and JARs that contain annotation processors" and I put
JDK EE's tools.jar there (it works with apt command line utility) but maybe
it needs specifically written plug-in...

Usually I've found that just having the JAR with the annotation class
definitions in the project class path suffices.

--
Lew