[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: apt: Not working in 3.2M6?

[Jess Garms <jgarms@xxxxxxx>]

> Two ideas:
> 1) I read somewhere in an old message that APT needed to be "activated" per 
> project. This is not mentioned in introToAPT and I can't find any option to 
> do it. If necessary, how ?

That's just the checkbox under Project Settings -> Java Compiler -> 
Annotation Processing, labeled "Enable annotation processing".

> 2) I read under "bugs and problems" something about tool.jar that was not 
> mentioned elsewhere in the document. Is there something I need to do here or 
> is the comment releated to an old case.

Yes, this is no longer a problem. I'll update the website to reflect this.

> In any case, I think APT needs some debugging output so that users (and you 
> guys) can find out what is wrong?

We do have that:

To do this create a new .options file, say "trace.apt" in the same 
directory as eclipse.exe, with the following content (excluding the ***):

***
# Turn on debug tracing for org.eclipse.jdt.core plugin 
org.eclipse.jdt.apt.core/debug=true
***

Launch Eclipse with the new options file via:

eclipse -debug trace.apt

And if APT is being dispatched you should see some output. I suspect, 
however, that APT is not being called at all. Could you zip up your 
project and email it to me directly and I can take a closer look?

Thanks,
Jess Garms