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

[David Goodenough <david.goodenough@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Walter Harley wrote:

> "David Goodenough" <david.goodenough@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:fbpt81$29d$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>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.
Would I be better off writing to the Java5 version, or do you think 
(assuming 3.3.1) that the Java6 stuff is sufficiently complete to use?

David
> 
>   -Walter Harley
>    JDT APT team