Bad service configuration file, or exception thrown while constructing Processor object

Question

I am writing a simple custom annotation in Java and running into a problem with it. Here is the main parts of my code.

LogMeCustomAnnotation.java

Answer 1

The default maven lifecycle runs javac with javax.annotation.processing.Processor file as a part of classpath. This cause compiler to expect a compiled instance of annotation processors listed in the files. But LogMeCustomAnnotationProcessor is not compiled at that moment so compiler raises "Bad service configuration file ..." error. See bug report.

To solve this issue maven compilation phase can be separated to compile annotation processor at the first place and then compile whole project.

    
        
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-compiler-plugin
            3.5.1
            
                1.8
                1.8
            
            
                
                    default-compile
                    
                        -proc:none
                        
                            fun/n/learn/annotation/LogMeCustomAnnotationProcessor.java
                            
                        
                    
                
                
                    compile-project
                    compile
                    
                        compile
                    
                
            
        
    

default-compile execution compiles LogMeCustomAnnotationProcessor with disabled annotation processing in order to have successful compilation.
compile-project compiles whole project with annotaton processing.