Synopsis
apt [options] sourcefiles
Description
apt
reads and parses the
specified sourcefiles. Any annotations it
finds are passed to appropriate annotation processor factory objects,
which can use the annotations to produce auxiliary source or resource
files based on annotation content. apt next
compiles sourcefiles and generated files.Annotation processor classes and factory classes are defined with the
com.sun.mirror.apt API and other subpackages of
com.sun.mirror.
Options
apt shares several options with
javac . If a command-line argument begins with
@, apt treats it as a file
and reads options and source files from that specified file. See
javac for more on this.
- -A name=value
Passes the name=value pair as an argument
to annotation processors.- -cp path
- -classpath path
Sets the classpath. See javac .- -d dir
The directory under which to place class files. See
javac .- -factory classname
Explicitly specifies the class name of the annotation processor
factory to use.- -factorypath path
A path to search for annotation processor factories instead of
searching the classpath.- -help
Prints usage information and exits.- -nocompile
Tells apt not to compile the
sourcefiles or any generated files.
Simply parses the specified sourcefiles
and prints a synopsis of the types they define. Does not process
annotations or compile any files.- -s dir
Specifies the root directory beneath which generated source files
will be stored.- -source version
Specifies what version of the language to accept. See
javac .- -version
Prints apt version information.- -X
Displays information about nonstandard options.
See also
javac , Chapter 4