Annotation processors and the --processor-module-path

[Alan Bateman]

On 21/11/2016 09:46, Eirik Bjørsnøs wrote:

> Alan,
>
> | $ javac --help
> | -processor <class1>[,<class2>,<class3>...]
> |        Names of the annotation processors to run; bypasses default
> discovery process
>
> Why does the "default discovery process" work  with --classpath, but not
> with --processor-module-path?
>
> Is it simply an omission, or is this by design?
>
If you have `provides javax.annotation.processing.Processor with ...` in 
your module declaration then it should find it. I just checked this 
locally and it works as expected. One of your mails said this wasn't 
working for you, not immediately obvious why from the mails. So if you 
aren't using `provides` then my understanding is that the processor 
needs to be specified via -processor but I don't think there is support 
there for allowing -processor to specify the processor module, hence not 
clear how it could be resolved.

-Alan