[hibernate-dev] Annotation Processors

[Hardy Ferentschik]

On 2 Jan 2013, at 18:12, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:

> Well technically it is not valid according to the javac spec, which was David's point (which I assume who you are referring to).

What is against the spec? To run 'javac -proc:only’?

>  And in fact we get a slew of errors from running `javac -proc:only`.  We just happen to eat/ignore them.

Sure, in some cases you might have to run the processors as part of the main compile. Still, imo nothing wrong with the way
we do it and it makes the build cleaner. 

—Hardy