Setting the generated source directory for annotation processors in Maven

Question

I\'m trying to move a build which generates sources using an annotation processor to Maven. I\'ve tried configuring the maven-compiler-plugin as follows:

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Answer 1

I've been using the maven-processor-plugin as follows:

    org.bsc.maven
    maven-processor-plugin
    2.2.4
    
      
        process-my-annotations
        
          process
        
        generate-test-sources
        
          
            x.y.z.MyAnnotationProcessor
          
          ${project.build.directory}/generated-test-sources/test-annotations
          ${project.build.directory}/test-classes
        
      
    
  

The generated code goes into target/generated-test-sources/test-annotations, and generated resources into target/test-classes (the default for the process goal is target/generated-sources and target/classes, respectively).

I also need to use maven-build-helper-plugin to add target/generated-test-sources/test-annotations to the test source path so that test-compile phase will compile the generated code.