On 17 Jan 2013, at 5:32 PM, Steve Ebersole <st...@hibernate.org> wrote:
> As discussed a little in HHH-8140[1] and on the earlier Eclipse thread, > I'd like to look at simplifying the build a bit around making IDE setup > easier. One thing that came to mind was looking at source generation. > Today we have source generation occur for: > * Antlr > * JAXB > * JPA static metamodel gen > * Logging > > The first 2 rely on specific tools while the other 2 are generated via > AnnotationProcessors. > > For the first 2, there is really not much to discuss aside from possibly > to consider adding those outputs to Git. I'd actually be open to > considering that for JAXB. Personally I would not check them in. In my world generated classes don't belong into the repository. > But really it is the AnnotationProcessors I wanted to talk about. > Currently we apply the AnnotationProcessors in separate javac task > configurations. I cannot remember all the reasons we decided to do it > this way originally. But I know that one was wanting to be able to keep > the output of each (the generated sources) in dedicated directories[2]. This reminds me of not so distant discussion on jboss-dev ;-) I still believe it is nice to have a different output directory for each annotation processor and I also like the idea of keeping things separate in the build. IMO it is completely valid to run the processors separately from the main javac call. I know this creates problems in the IDE setup, but the limiting factor in this case is the IDE. > But we could also just lump all the APT output into one single, separate > directory (target/generated-src/apt/main, target/generated-src/apt/test, > e.g.). What this would gain us is the ability for the IDE to run APT as > part of normal javac. It would be one less thing to set up when setting > up the IDE project. Since I drive the build most of the time from the command line I don't care that the IDE is not doing the APT processing. For me a nicely organised build outweighs simpler IDE setup. --Hardy _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
