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

[David Goodenough <david.goodenough@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charlie Kelly wrote:

> Hi David,
> 
> Did you try
> Windows->Preferences->Java->Compiler  CompilerComplianceLevel
Yes, it is set to 6.0.

David
> 
> Charlie
> 
> David Goodenough wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to use annotations in Eclipse, and I am stuck.
>> 
>> I have a workplace with a project within which I have defined a couple
>> of annotation processors, the annotation classes, and some classes which
>> use the annotations.  I have made sure that I have started Eclipse with
>> a Version 6 JVM (a Sun one) and I have enabled annotation processing for
>> this project.  But nothing happens, and the processor is never invoked
>> (as far as I can tell - at least there are no errors and nothing gets
>> generated).
>> 
>> I did come across a reference to having to enable something specific to
>> allow new classes to be generated while I am editing so that new classes
>> can be generated by annotations and then referenced in the class I am
>> editing, but I do not understand exactly what I am supposed to do to
>> enable
>> this.  The option is apparently enableTypeGenerationInEditor, and so I
>> set this to true in the processor options on the annotations processing
>> property page for the project.
>> 
>> Does anyone have a worked example of writing an annotation processor in
>> Eclipse, and then using it - I guess I am missing some simple stage in
>> the process.
>> 
>> David