[hibernate-dev] Build and AnnotationProcessors

[Hardy Ferentschik]

On 17 Jan 2013, at 6:30 PM, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org> wrote:

> AFAIK the reason we originally had a separate phase for annotation
> processors was to workaround the following javac bug:
> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6512707

>From a Maven perspective (not an ORM issue longer) there is/was also
the issue of configuring the annotation processors in the compiler plugin.
There are several unresolved Jira issues for that, but according to David
they are resolved, even though I cannot see any reference of that in the 
Maven issue tracker. 

> On command line users.. I'd agree with Hardy that we likely all prefer
> building from the command line rather than from the IDE, but I don't
> expect that to be the majority of users.

So what do you do when you are interested in some project and want to check it out?
Get the sources and load it directly in your IDE. IMO that is stupid. I first build at least
once from the command line and have a look at the generated directories. Does the 
build work? Can I make sense off things w/o knowing much about the code?
Only then I would start using an IDE and I expect that a developer can set up his 
IDE of choice.

--Hardy