[jdt-apt-dev] Debugging Annotation Processors in Eclipse

[Manish Bhargava <manishb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys,

I have been trying to debug annotation
processor but no luck yet.

On  the web site it says...
"

To debug an annotation processor it must be run from a plugin. You develop your code in the plugin, and then debug it by annotating source code in a spawned instance of Eclipse. The debugging instance needs the annotation declaration, the factory, and the processor. The spawned instance only needs access to the delaration.

"

I created a plugin based on the APTDemo.
The processor code  is in the plugin source folder along with a jar
dependency where annotations (@TypeGeneratingAnnotation and @DemoAnnotation)
are defined. Annotating the src code within a java project (which has the
annotations.jar in classpath) )in a spawned instance of Eclipse does not
invoke the processor (the break points do not get called). 

I am not sure what an I missing here
but any help is appreciated. The plugin zip file in my workspace is attached
along with a pic below.

-Manish

Attachment: mydemo.zip
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