Provide annotation processor as the separate maven artifact.

[foal]

Now GWT project depends on annotation processor and vice versa 'maven-compiler-plugin' has GWT related classes in 'annotationProcessorPaths'

[ibaca]

Anyways, GWT does not include the jar in the final output, as it just compiles out as HTML/CSS/JS so... although this might be a good practice in general, in this case, add nothing, especially bc the processor dependencies are shaded so it cannot conflict with other dependencies.

[foal]

It is just suggestion. Now it isn't a real issue, but later it may be a cause of some unpredictable issues in dependency management, so better to think about it.

[hpehl]

@foal I don't fully understand the issue. Can you explain what exactly is wrong?

[foal]

Now the annotation processor is in the same project with GWT related classes. Due that the elemento-template jar (and all transitive dependencies) is participating in two different process - code generation and GWT compilation. The second point - it is not clear that jar has to be included in APT classtath (JDK -processorpath option). To resolve it I will need to check out the sources and found out the module that contains an annotation processor.

[hpehl]

IIUC you want to split maven module elemento-template?

• elemento-template-api containing the classes from package org.jboss.gwt.elemento.template and
• elemento-template-processor containing the classes from package org.jboss.gwt.elemento.processor

The former would be part of the GWT compilation whereas the latter is only necessary for code generation. This would make it also more obvious which JAR needs to be on the APT classpath.

[foal]

Exactly