This is not something we can fix. It is the Java Compiler that is calling the annotation processor and in case of a compile error like a symbol not found, it seems like it does not attempt to call the annotation processor. Note that the initial message Hibernate JPA 2 Static-Metamodel Generator 6.1.6.Final is the very first thing the annotation processor does, so if this does not appear in the logs, then it’s javac that aborted the process.

I’ll close the issue as there is nothing we can do here.