[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: Annotations in Eclipse (Europa)

["Walter Harley" <wharley@xxxxxxx>]

"David Goodenough" <david.goodenough@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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>I am trying to use annotations in Eclipse, and I am stuck.

I should also mention that support in the Eclipse 3.3 IDE for Java 6 
annotation processors (that is, processors that implement 
javax.annotation.processing.Processor, as opposed to the 
com.sun.mirror.apt.AnnotationProcessor API in Java 5) is "introductory". 
That is, there are a lot of missing features, and probably some bugs as 
well.  It's possible that your processor is actually running, but aborting 
silently due to an exception of some sort.

Eclipse 3.3.1 improves the situation somewhat, so if you are writing Java 6 
processors you might want to upgrade.  3.3.1 hasn't officially been released 
yet but we are in final testing stages and it is in very good shape.  That 
said, we probably are not going to be solidly 100% on the Java 6 annotation 
processing front until 3.4.

  -Walter Harley
   JDT APT team