Building with Lombok's @Slf4j and Eclipse: Cannot find symbol log

Question

I have the lombok plugin in Eclipse and enabled annotation processing in Eclipse under java compiler, but still it is unable to recognize the log statements when I use @Slf4

Answer 1

So like others, i also faced this issue. Below is what I did.

1. Installed lombok.jar like explained here.
2. Tried restarting eclipse. (Did not work)
3. Tried refreshing gradle project. (Did not work)
4. tried what Hervian suggested in his answer here. (Did not work)
5. Closed the projects, deleted from workspace and then re-imported. Bam!! Worked.