Get validation to work with Maven and Requestfactory on Eclipse

Question

I have a project setup with Maven and using RequestFactory. However I cannot get the validation to work through maven settings. This is how my maven setup looks like:

    <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>${maven-compiler-plugin.version}</version>
        <configuration>
            <source>${target.jdk}</source>
            <target>${target.jdk}</target>
            <encoding>${project.build.sourceEncoding}</encoding>
            <proc>none</proc>
        </configuration>
        <dependencies>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>com.google.web.bindery</groupId>
                <artifactId>requestfactory-apt</artifactId>
                <version>${gwt.version}</version>
            </dependency>
        </dependencies>
    </plugin>

I have also added Hibernate validator.

On the Eclipse side, I have tried various things, among which the most correct one looks like this:

I also have installed the m2e-apt plugin.

However I still can't get the validation tool to run. I don't get validation errors if I make mistakes on purpose and of course, when I run my application I get the infamous

SEVERE: Unexpected error java.lang.RuntimeException: The RequestFactory ValidationTool must be run for the ...

Anyone has any idea of what I am missing? Should I simply resign myself to configure Eclipse manually?

Answer 1

You explicitly disabled annotation processing in the maven-compiler-plugin's configuration:

<proc>none</proc>

Remove that line and it should run annotation processors.

Note that there's a regression with maven-compiler-plugin 3.x where the plugin dependencies no longer are taken into account when compiling (it probably never was thought as a feature) so your requestfactory-apt would not be seen by JavaC with recent maven-compiler-plugin versions and you'd still have the same problem then.

The only way to reliably use annotation processors with Maven is to declare them as project dependencies with either <scope>provided</scope> or <optional>true</optional>, or to use the maven-processor-plugin. There's an open feature request for better support in Maven proper through the maven-compiler-plugin: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MCOMPILER-203