A maven plugin to process compile time annotation for jdk8 and above.

      

This plugin helps to use from maven the new annotation processing integrated in java compiler provided from JDK8

This plugin was born as the 'alter ego' of maven apt plugin apt-maven-plugin

Documentation

• Last Version
• Version 2 (old)

Related plugin

plugin	info
m2e-apt	eclipse plugin from Jboss
m2e-annotations	eclipse plugin

Develop an annotation processor

• ANNOTATION PROCESSING 101

Releases

Date	Version	Info
Dec 22, 2020	Release 4.5	fix issue #90
Dec 22, 2020	Release 4.5-jdk8	---
Oct 01, 2020	Release 4.4	merge PR #87. Thanks to Martijn Dashorst
Oct 01, 2020	Release 4.4-jdk8	---
Sep 25, 2020	Release 4.3	merge PR #85. Thanks to Martijn Dashorst
Aug 03, 2020	Release 4.2	merge PR #84. Thanks to DemonicTutor
Aug 03, 2020	Release 4.2-jdk8	---
Jul 30, 2020	Release 4.1	Release based on JDK9 and above
Jul 30, 2020	Release 4.1-jdk8	Maintenance release compatible with JDK8
Jul 21, 2020	Release 4.0-jdk8	Maintenance release compatible with JDK8
Jul 18, 2020	Release 4.0	Release based on JDK9 and above
Apr 17, 2020	Release 4.0-rc1
Mar 02, 2020	Release 4.0-beta1

History

Aug 12,2018	Release 3.3.3.	Available on MAVEN CENTRAL REPO

• Issue 75 - Add support for Java9 --release parameter
• Issue 72 - How to solve multiple executions of plugin

Sep 7,2017	Release 3.3.2.	Available on MAVEN CENTRAL REPO

• Issue 69 - Java 9 support

• Pull request 70 - Pass through additional compiler arguments

  Thanks to beikov for contribution

Apr 11,2017	Release 3.3.1.	Available on MAVEN CENTRAL REPO

• Issue 66 - source 1.8 ignored
• Issue 67 - options are not taking in consideration

Apr 10,2017	Release 3.3.	Available on MAVEN CENTRAL REPO

• Issue 64 - Add option to fork for JDK9 support
• Issue 65 - Add support for maven-toolchains-plugin

Oct 7,2016	Release 3.2.0.	Available on MAVEN CENTRAL REPO

• Issue 63 - -sourcepath is not configured

Feb 2,2016	Release 3.1.0.	Available on MAVEN CENTRAL REPO

• pull request #61 fixing issue #59 - Add skip property

Thanks to borisbrodski for contribution

Jun 28,2014	Release 3.1.0-beta1.	Available on MAVEN CENTRAL REPO

This plugin use maven 3.1.0 runtime

• Issue 56 - diagnostic message from NOTE to INFO

Jun 14,2013	Release 2.2.4.	Available on MAVEN CENTRAL REPO

• Issue 54 - diagnostic messages mapping

May 22,2013	Release 2.2.3.	Available on MAVEN CENTRAL REPO

• Issue 53 - encoding issue

May 20,2013	Release 2.2.2.	Available on MAVEN CENTRAL REPO

• Issue 48 - quite mode. Thanks to Michael Bayne for patch

Apr 6,2013	Release 2.2.1.	Available on MAVEN CENTRAL REPO

• Issue 51 - fix encoding issue. Thanks to velo.br for patch

Apr 4,2013	Release 2.2.0.	Available on MAVEN CENTRAL REPO

• Issue 50 - support for scanning maven source artifacts. Thanks to ike.braun for patch

Jan 30,2013	Release 2.1.1.	Available on MAVEN CENTRAL REPO

• Issue 47 - "duplicate class" error

Nov 6,2012	Release 2.1.0.	Available on MAVEN CENTRAL REPO

• Issue 46 - regression bug
• Issue 44 - move code to use maven 3 annotation

Oct 18,2012	Release 2.1.0-beta1.	Available on MAVEN CENTRAL REPO

• Issue 44 - move code to use maven 3 annotation

Oct 09,2012	Release 2.0.8.	Available on MAVEN CENTRAL REPO

• Issue 43 - @parameter for addOutputDirectoryToCompilationSources

Sep 01,2012	Release 2.0.7.	Available on MAVEN CENTRAL REPO

• Issue 42 - Support multiple source directories. Patch from reydelamirienda
• Now the plugin is compatible with build-helper-maven-plugin

Aug 07,2012	Release 2.0.6.	Available on MAVEN CENTRAL REPO

• Issue 36 - Eclipse JVM issue
• Issue 41 - Multithread

Sep 13,2011	Release 2.0.5.	Available on MAVEN CENTRAL REPO

• fixed issue 35 - enhance options support

Aug 11,2011	Release 2.0.4.	Available on MAVEN CENTRAL REPO

• fixed issue 24 - add support of options

Jul 6,2011	Release 2.0.3.	Available on MAVEN CENTRAL REPO

• fixed issue 29 - Don't Swallow Cause. patch from eric.dalquist
• fixed issue 30 - Be more lenient of missing source directories
• fixed issue 31 - plugin respect classpath/dependency order

Apr 18,2011	Release 2.0.2.	Available on MAVEN CENTRAL REPO

• fixed issue 23 - Publish to Maven Central - Thank you to Igor Vaynberg for support

Feb 25,2011	Release 2.0.1.	Available on INTERNAL MAVEN REPOSITORY

• fixed issue 28 - add incudes/excludes feature

Dec 05,2010	Release 2.0.0.	Available on JAVA.NET REPOSITORY

• fixed issue 26 - Tested over maven3 release

Aug 27,2010	Release 1.3.7.	Available on JAVA.NET REPOSITORY

• fixed issue 25- skip processing whether no source files found

Jun 17,2010	Release 1.3.6.	Available on JAVA.NET REPOSITORY

• fixed issue 22- support system properties

May 18,2010	Release 1.3.5.	Available on JAVA.NET REPOSITORY

• fixed issue 12- support output class folder directly in configuration

May 4,2010	Release 1.3.4.	Available from maven

fixed issue 20- add plugin dependencies to processor classpath

Apr 23,2010	Release 1.3.3.	Available from maven

fixed issue 19 - possible disable diagnostic output

Apr 11,2010	Release 1.3.2.	Available from maven

fixed issue 17 skip when packaging is pom (useful to add plugin declaration in parent pom)

Feb 04,2010	Release 1.3.1.	Available from maven

fixed issue 15 add failOnError parameter

import maven dependency

If you want stay tuned on each update, use the SNAPSHOT version as shown below

   <plugin>
      <groupId>org.bsc.maven</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-processor-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>x.x.x-SNAPSHOT</version>

   </plugin>

News

From release 2.0.2 this plugin is available from MAVEN CENTRAL REPO

Created branch 1.3.x to continue to support maven2.x - Trunk has been moved to release 2.x that will support maven3 features

Old Releases

Jan 22,2010	Release 1.3.	Available from maven
Nov 25,2009	Release 1.2.	Available from maven
Nov 08,2009	Release 1.1.	Available from maven
Nov 08,2009	Release 1.0.	Available from maven