[infinispan-dev] For Eclipse users: setup the annotation processors

[Pete Muir]

On 14 Jul 2011, at 12:34, Sanne Grinovero wrote:

> Yesterday during one of the changes I made about dependencies I
> removed the committed eclipse project file which setup the annotation
> processors for Eclipse,
> mainly because it was not valid anymore with the current dependencies.

Haha, I only added that about last week. It shows how poor the current approach for eclipse is :-(

Please make sure you add a note to the contribution guide to state how to set up annotation processing without this file present. You can find the current instructions in chapter 1.

> 
> Fred Bricon from the JBoss Tools team is working on
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-8208, I've tested his work
> yesterday on both Infinispan and Hibernate projects: it's awesome, and
> the project will not need anything more than a standard maven project
> import to be setup properly.

This is a much better approach.

> 
> The integration is very nice, for example if you now make a mistake in
> the logger annotations (like a duplicate logging ID) Eclipse will
> immediately highlight it as compile error - again without needing to
> configure anything in the IDE; as soon as [LOGTOOL-20] will be
> included in the next version of the annotation processor we'll even
> get errors of mismatching parameters with the message placeholders as
> "%s".
> 
> There's one side note: this update of the plugin was not released yet,
> so please be patient and for the time being configure the annotation
> processors manually and avoid committing that in the project as it
> will conflict with the plugin work.
> The main difficulty in configuring the APs is gone (duplicate
> conflicting classes on classpath), so you only have to tick the
> annotation processors checkbox to "enabled", if it's not already.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sanne
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