Setting the generated source directory for annotation processors in Maven

Question

I\'m trying to move a build which generates sources using an annotation processor to Maven. I\'ve tried configuring the maven-compiler-plugin as follows:

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Answer 1

I got the same problem ...

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[ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR :

[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------

[ERROR] Failure executing javac, but could not parse the error:

javac: invalid flag: -s
...

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Are you using java 5 ?

$ mvn -version

Apache Maven 2.2.1 (rdebian-8)

Java version: 1.5.0_22

Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.22/jre

Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8

OS name: "linux" version: "3.2.0-24-generic" arch: "amd64" Family: "unix"

$ which java
/usr/bin/java

$ ll /usr/bin/java
/usr/bin/java -> /etc/alternatives/java*

$ ll /etc/alternatives/java
/etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre/bin/java*

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$ sudo update-alternatives --config java



$ mvn -version

Apache Maven 2.2.1 (rdebian-8)

Java version: 1.6.0_24

Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre

Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8

OS name: "linux" version: "3.2.0-24-generic" arch: "amd64" Family: "unix"

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now, mvn install should work :-)