Annotation processor output in maven

Question

I\'m using JSR 269 as a way to analyze code during compilation and to fail it if needed. I\'m having troubles with displaying output of my annotation processor in maven (Ant

Answer 1

I think you are running into a Maven bug or better a bug in the compiler plugin - MCOMPILER-66. When it comes to annotation processing the compiler plugin has several problems, eg also MCOMPILER-62. Really the best option imo is to disable annotation processing for the compiler plugin and use the maven-processor-plugin. In this blog post you can see how to use it. It looks like this:

   
    
        maven-compiler-plugin
        
            1.6
            1.6
            -proc:none
        
    
    
        org.bsc.maven
        maven-processor-plugin
        1.3.7
        
            
                process
                
                    process
                
                process-sources
            
        
        
            
                org.hibernate
                hibernate-jpamodelgen
                1.1.0.Final
                compile
            
        
    

Note also how the annotation processor dependency is nicely scoped to the plugin only.